pervious

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This hot, mineral-rich, and often smokey water seeks the most pervious path through the Earth's crust and encounters cold, oxygen-rich water at the sea floor.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2024

The company also expects an insurance margin in fiscal 2024 of 13.5%–15.5%, higher than the pervious year's margin of 12.6%.

From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2023

The 23-year-old rookie has thrown at least 96 pitches in each of his pervious three starts against NL East opponents.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2022

Reminisce about the Bluebonnet Bowl, the postseason game once played in the old Houston Astrodome that was the setting for the only pervious matchup of the Boilermakers and Volunteers in 1979.

From Fox News • Dec. 14, 2021

In its passage through the pervious rocks, it takes up soluble impurities, varying in their amount and character with the nature of the geological formations, these impurities being either mineral, vegetable, or animal matter.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various