Richard Thomas

If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other - then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration.

American Actor

Kyra Sedgwick

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.

American Actress

Julian Baggini

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.

British Author

Zaha Hadid

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

British Architect

Herman Cain

The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

American Businessman

Charlie Kirk

Democrats encouraged a porous southern border because they saw migrants and their American-born children as a source of future political support.

American Activist

Raja Krishnamoorthi

A porous border is a danger to America's national security, the people who live near it, and to those who cross it.

Lindsey Graham

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

American Politician

Zoe Lister-Jones

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

Bono

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Irish Singer

Porous describes actual small openings in materials where air or liquid can pass through.

Literal Holes

Materials described as porous often absorb substances, which is why they're used in filters and sponges.

Absorption Quality

A porous object may feel rough due to the many tiny holes it has on its surface.

Physical Texture

When not talking about materials, 'porous' can mean lacking strict boundaries or protection.

Figurative Use

In contexts like security or borders, 'porous' implies vulnerability and the need for improvement.

Weakness Implication

It's crucial to understand the context, as 'porous' can either refer to physical properties or abstract concepts.

Context Clarity

 And because we're doing the folding on the computer, we are completely free of any physical constraints. So that means that surfaces can intersect themselves, they can become impossibly small. We can make folds that we otherwise could not make. Surfaces can become porous.

Michael Hansmeyer:...

 the egg's protective shell. It's tough but flexible, and has a leathery surface, still seen in reptile eggs today. The shell protects the eggs from predators, bacteria, damage, and drying out. But, unlike the walls of a fish tank, the shell of the amniotic egg is porous,

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 very deep underground i feel really good doing my tiny part directing groundwater back into the aquifer these underground layers of porous rock store vast volumes of ancient rainwater but all across the u.s cities farmers and industry are extracting this vital water

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 At any given moment, trillions of cells are traveling through your blood vessels, sometimes circling the body in just one minute. Each of these cells has its origins deep in your bones. Bones might seem rock-solid, but they’re actually quite porous inside.

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 they don't go to doctors if they feel bad. They don't ask for help. There's a quote that I really like, "Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I'." You know, his sense of self. Whereas women's sense of self has always been kind of porous.

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 Roots help prevent floods, while reducing the need for storm drains and water treatment plants. Their porous leaves purify the air by trapping carbon and other pollutants, making them essential in the fight against climate change.

What happens if you cut...

 Industrial Revolution gone are the traditional four walls of the business in favor of a more porous separation between those who produce tomato sauce in all of us and many more who can help produce it

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 and it draws down the stale warm air from the colony above down long chimneys which go right round the edge of the cellar as it does so there's a seepage of gas through porous dimples and the walls

Fascinating Termite...

 But the most important thing I learned on that road trip is that the divide between the sick and the well -- it doesn't exist. The border is porous. As we live longer and longer,

What almost dying taught...

 so compact, that water cannot seep in. We mix some local biomass available around, which can help soil become more porous. Water can now seep in.