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penetrative

[pen-i-trey-tiv] / ˈpɛn ɪˌtreɪ tɪv /






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Unless there are recurring, penetrative rains in August, the family will sell half of its herd.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021

Expected goals suggested they were three times more penetrative than Palace, with matchwinner Adama Traoré leading the way, but it was the tighter defensive performance that boded just as well.

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2021

The report says mobile phones "reveal patterns of our daily personal and professional lives and enable penetrative insights into our actions, behaviour, beliefs, and state of mind".

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2020

Above all, alchemists strove to capture the fluid, penetrative properties of ‘mercury’.

From Nature • Apr. 28, 2020

He remembered his own jest with the alabarch, and added thereto the impatient surmise of this penetrative woman.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth