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piercing

[peer-sing] / ˈpɪər sɪŋ /


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It blasted above the 50-week simple moving average starting with a bullish piercing line and engulfing candle in late February.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

A piercing reminder of reality follows this music of hope and reconciliation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

"The most obvious indicator of device quality is the shape of the resonances and we want them to be deep and narrow, like a needle piercing through the signal background," Erikson said.

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

Malinin was among those in the crowd who gave Liu - the alt girl with her iconic halo hair and lip piercing - a standing ovation as she wrote herself into Olympic folklore.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

His weather-worn skin, his salt-and.pepper hair, his piercing blue eyes.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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