pierce
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People like Rupar, who post candid videos and photos that reveal his human weakness, pierce through the increasingly fragile White House efforts to prop up the 80-year-old president as the epitome of strength and masculinity.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
During charging, tiny tree-like structures called dendrites can grow from the lithium anode, pierce the solid electrolyte, and create internal short circuits.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Some courts may be less willing to extend trust protections in such cases, though courts do not routinely pierce spendthrift protections simply because the underlying conduct of a beneficiary was wrongful.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
The noise is deafening: Horns blare, whistles pierce the piercing cold.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
Everyone shouts, and somehow their screams pierce the haze in my mind.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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The sound of anti-aircraft guns pierces the sky as conversations at the market revolve around rising prices and the coming winter.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
As we talk, on occasion the screeching call of a toucan pierces the quiet, and miles above, the same giant black birds hover menacingly in groups, surveying everything below.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
However, a bright light that illuminates Felix Gold’s site now sometimes pierces the otherwise starlit night sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
When gold pierces through supply growth by 50%-plus — compared with gold-mining output up around 1% — something is being questioned.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025
I buy the cheapest sack of porridge meal I can find at the market, and a little hope pierces my soul like sun through clouds.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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A steel beam had pierced a subway station like a lawn dart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Steve Irwin died on 4 September 2006, aged 44, after a stingray fatally pierced his chest while he was underwater filming a documentary at the Great Barrier Reef.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Archaeologists recently uncovered jewelry that included a pierced deer tooth and beads, all carbon dated to around 11,000 years ago.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
On the nouveau fashion blogs of Substack, women exchange styling ideas for the brand’s signature pierced mules.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
The crew scattered for cover, except for Piper, who stood frozen in place, gaping at the arrow that had almost pierced her nose the hard way.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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Blending Yoruba, Catholic and mystical traditions, their photos feature jet-black subjects that blend into inky backgrounds, their eyes piercing the darkness as they stare at the viewer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Their portrayals, mixing ferocious strength with stark vulnerability, make the tragedy’s pileup of bodies at the end all the more piercing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
In a four-star review, external, the Times noted how Heaton's "casually funny" and "deceptively piercing" latest album "again confirms his gift for dissecting human weakness with an unsentimental but humane eye".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
But just then, a piercing pink light appears outside, and a low, opaque mist begins to creep through the seams of your tent.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
He thought of Nok, her piercing blackbird eyes and the vengeful way she'd looked at him before he leaped from the cliff into the water.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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