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"text": "Light penetrates darkness.",
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"text": "Considerable interest has developed within the defense community during recent years in weapons that are capable of penetrating some distance into the earth before detonating. […] To be generally effective, earth penetrating weapons (EPW) must be capable of penetrating various geologic targets, ranging from soil to rock, without producing critical damage to the payload.",
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"text": "and they, ... they .... fly though space, and they penetrate the atmosphere[…]after an amazing nine-month journey",
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"text": "I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.",
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"text": "to penetrate one's heart with pity",
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"text": "The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.",
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"text": "a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female",
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"ref": "2005, Patricia Vettel-Becker, Shooting from the hip: photography, masculinity, and postwar America",
"text": "His weapons have been destroyed; his body has been or can be penetrated. In other words, he is rapable.",
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"To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus."
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"word": "ঢুকানো"
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"word": "ápafur"
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"word": "삽입하다"
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{
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"code": "bn",
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"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "ঢুকানো"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "pronikvam",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
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"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "penetreren"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "läbistama"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "penetroida"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "penetrar"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "penetrieren"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "behatol"
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{
"code": "kyh",
"lang": "Karok",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "ápafur"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sabip-hada",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "삽입하다"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
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{
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "sopuxtan",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "سپوختن"
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"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
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"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "penetrar"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
"word": "pasukin"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina",
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