puncture
Example Sentences
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The incident could also puncture the space stocks bubble, judging by how investors were reacting ahead of Friday’s opening bell.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
First, doctors make a small puncture in an artery, usually in the groin, and feed a catheter up into the patient’s heart.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Still, it does puncture the social media myth that this was a rebel’s wild stunt.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Participants received doses of up to 70mg of zorevunersen through a lumbar puncture.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026
They never even had guts enough to puncture it, to jab a hole in it.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing puncture
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
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