penetrant

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Recent Examples of penetrant If there are larger, more penetrant rust stains, begin at step one with an overnight soak or consider using method 2. Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 15 July 2024 In some cases these risk alleles are very penetrant, in that a particular state predicts with high likelihood a disease phenotype. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2013 Through working with master jewelers to realize her penetrant vision, Lipton has created something that embodies much more than a fine jewelry collection. Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for penetrant
Adjective
  • One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.
    Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • Its manufacturers have also set up extensive operations in third countries like Vietnam and Cambodia, in part to take advantage of potentially lower US duties.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
  • League sources say Booth had extensive talks with the Kroenkes about an extension, and was convinced that completing the deal was a matter of when, not if.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • There was nothing more profound in the Padres clubhouse afterward than the usual disappointment that is present following dozens and dozens of losses in every team’s season.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The untethered narrator enacts, to a degree, a welcome fantasy: that the alienation generated inside long marriages and complex parent-child relationships—or intrinsic to living in a fraying social and political world—can both provide inspiration for profound art and also be left behind entirely.
    Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Penetrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penetrant. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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