puncture
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The Amazon price hikes on the older chips does puncture the argument laid out by some investors, like Michael Burry, that the company is not properly depreciating its microchip assets.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
This can puncture the batteries that cause them to short-circuit, overheat and potentially ignite surrounding materials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Plouffe, 27, who rides for British continental team O'Shea Red Chilli Bikes, said the incident happened on a roundabout as she was chasing back to the peloton, following a puncture on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The goal was not to convince readers of a new conspiracy theory, but to puncture the rigidity of any mindset that tells us only one reality is possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He had just thought of something that made him feel as though the happy balloon inside him had got a puncture.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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In the new study, researchers examined several kinds of depressions, punctures, holes, and grooves that appeared to have been left by teeth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Bites often leave punctures or furrows in bone, but disease, insects, weathering, and erosion can create similar features.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
But Sobel’s second point punctures some of the excitement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
I have to do more blood work, or lumbar punctures, to rule out meningitis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Lefty used to stop there with Milton to buy cantaloupes, teaching Milton how to pick a sweet one by looking for tiny punctures left by bees.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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A powerful drive by Kane James punctured a hole in Bath's defence with Iosefa-Scott eventually able to pick and go for the prop's second try in two games.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Yemen relapsed into war in July after years of relative calm punctured by sporadic violence and deepening poverty.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Comedy capers like this usually deflate in the third act when their pleasures get punctured by unfunny gunfire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
For Arendt’s grandfather Max, Mr. Meyer writes, Zionism punctured the belief that “one could be on an equal footing as a Jew, as a citizen, and as a German.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
He’s holding a tube of zinc ointment in one hand and is dabbing Rosie’s punctured skin.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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According to the company website, the glove is designed to disrupt sensory nerves without puncturing or burning the skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
That’s a program I would support, in addition to puncturing the bubble.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Newcastle will have to do so without influential defender Dan Burn, who is out for four to six weeks after breaking a rib and puncturing a lung in the derby.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
The vessel was now surrounded on all sides by small islands of ice capable of puncturing the hull.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
“You are puncturing my imported muffler,” Ignatius screamed.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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