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pen·e·trate

(pen'ĕ-trāt),
To pierce; to pass into the deeper tissues or into a cavity.
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penetrate

verb To enter by force; to force one’s way into a place or space; to infiltrate.

Forensics
verb To enter into the body—e.g., by a sharp object or projectile.

Sexology
verb To enter a natural orifice (e.g., the vagina, anus), as by a penis or sexual toy.
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so much as noting missed opportunities: the chance to look more penetratingly at the reasons Wasserstein spoke to a generation; to examine the process of (and the rationale for) basing art so closely on life that her friends were frequently surprised to see themselves onstage with little more than their names changed; to look at the ways in which the public, or a dramatist's sense of that public, affects a play's composition." FRANCINE PROSE
"[No More Blithedales]" and "[No Genius for Realities]." Not only is this a more attractive presentation, it is, like the Millington edition overall, clearer and better organized--more inviting and user-friendly but also more penetratingly outlined.
He is not pursuing some profound thematic purpose or presenting some penetratingly subtle perception; we all know that killing people is wrong, especially for the kind of reasons the duke gives; if we don't, we are not likely to be convinced by a poem, still less by one based on our acceptance of this rule.
In a penetratingly accurate essay on his website, Stephan Haeckel makes the observation that we have a disease treatment system, not a health care system.
Woolf observes in Austen's juvenilia a note "which sounds distinctly and penetratingly all through .
He knows that Dante has examined the nature of love, and he probably knows also that the great Scholastics, like Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, and such Church Fathers as Augustine, had written much, and penetratingly, on love and desire.
A., Lin's reply was: " I am selling My Country and My People!" (13) This was a well-known international joke that penetratingly critiqued Lin Yutang's academic mental servitude in his admiration of the West.
It will be some years before historians are able to write so penetratingly about the wars of our own era, but documentary film-makers are filling the gap.
THROUGHOUT her life, Levertov has written penetratingly as a sister, lover, wife, mother, and daughter, but after her mother's death in 1977, her poems about the mother/daughter bond became particularly important in helping her "to imagine a communal notion of self, empowered and continually altered through connection with others," as Linda Kinnahan pointed out in a later, convincing feminist analysis (Kinnahan 182).
John Harlan was, in all likelihood, the most penetratingly thoughtful Justice of the Warren era.
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