porous
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Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
In those experiments, sodium chloride crystals form in a loose, porous structure as water evaporates.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
The planned centres in West Bengal have drawn particular concern because of the state's porous border with Bangladesh and its long history of migration.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
Numbers were once even greater - after a devastating famine in the mid-1990s triggered what rights groups described as a silent exodus over a more porous border with China.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Slag looks like pieces of porous rock but actually is the cinders left over when iron ore is melted down to make steel.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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