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
"When such charged droplets strike a coating, they discharge locally and can puncture the layer in specific spots like a small flash of lightning -- with consequences for the coating's durability."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 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
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
“You puncture me when I become a great Italian thinker. But I know many things I can’t say. I know more than you.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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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
He watched as she opened a pouch she took from her pocket and began to treat the punctures and cuts.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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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
The move punctured Wachtell’s invulnerable image, and it cuts to the debate roiling the legal industry about what law firms will look like in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
They found carved furniture, sitting rooms, lounges, a bar with shattered liquor bottles, staterooms, art on the walls mangled and torn, oil paintings tossed about and punctured.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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That’s a program I would support, in addition to puncturing the bubble.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The allegations against Cesar Chavez represent a definitive puncturing of the myth surrounding the civil rights icon and necessitate a comprehensive reckoning with how Latino communities elevated him despite warning signs of moral failings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Burn, making his first appearance since breaking a rib and puncturing a lung, was even named man of the match after a colossal performance.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
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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