penetrated

verb

past tense of penetrate
as in entered
to go or come in or into a needle penetrated the heavy canvas only with great effort

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Recent Examples of penetrated On August 7, the Oregon governor’s office confirmed hackers had penetrated the core control systems of an Oregon water district. — John Caruso, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026 The Mughals were heavily outnumbered by the Afghans but had penetrated the opposing army from the side and rear, causing great losses in Hemu’s army. — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026 As colonial administrators and missionaries had penetrated the highlands, the practice of cannibalism had ended and kuru had begun to recede. — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 The leaf canopy was so dense that at times only a half-light, a sort of dusky murk, penetrated to the forest floor where the hounds ran. — Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026 The children are dismembered and penetrated, flayed alive, disemboweled, and their intestines set alight. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026 The main reason that high-quality asset protection structures are penetrated is because they were misused or disregarded. — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Allow the grass to absorb the water, then water again until moisture has penetrated 4 to 6 inches below the soil surface. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2026 All of these appeared to originate at boundaries between tiles, suggesting hot gas may have penetrated these boundaries. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for penetrated
  1. entered
  2. pierced
  3. accessed
Verb
  • Combined with recent updates across several companies in the AI industry, the AI competition appears to have entered a new phase centered on cost-efficiency.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Last year, Tatcha entered Europe in partnership with Sephora, adding to existing footprints in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia and Japan.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of entered
Verb
  • Her brown leather jacket was pierced with 60 stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed nearly ear to ear.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Investigators believe the bullet that pierced the restaurant window was fired from inside a passing vehicle on Vista Village Drive.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of pierced
Verb
  • According to OpenAI, its models escaped a sandboxed testing environment, accessed the internet and exploited a vulnerability to gain access to Hugging Face’s systems while trying to find information to cheat on an evaluation.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Anthropic disclosed three incidents during third-party evaluations in which its models accessed the internet and gained unauthorized access to external organizations.
    — Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of accessed

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“Penetrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penetrated. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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