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The earnings punctuate one of the more impressive advances for the market since the Covid pandemic.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Jamal Murray drained a three-pointer from almost three-quarters court at the buzzer to punctuate a chaotic final 35 seconds that included Doncic’s 13th technical foul of the season and an 8-0 run for the Nuggets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

It’s obviously being used to punctuate the ending of a chapter with the show coming to a close.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026

Imagine this: The cheerful, if slightly scolding voices of the self-checkout machines punctuate the steady hum of fluorescent lights.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

And she took it away again, immediately afterward, so that it would be no less splendid on the Sunday of the great dinner that was officially to punctuate the revival.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

The development punctuates a series of disclosures of incidents in which advanced AI models escaped from testing environments and behaved in unforeseen ways, raising questions about companies’ abilities to constrain their increasingly capable creations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

That Garbus shuffles late-night bits into the action punctuates the blur of corporate interests and celebrity that the Murdochs represent.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

She punctuates the quip by taking a big bite, leaving a glob of frosting on her face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026

An unexpected board drama at Denmark’s Novo Nordisk punctuates an already tumultuous year in which the maker of the blockbusters Ozempic and Wegovy plans to slash 9,000 workers globally.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

Silence punctuates the space between us and I feel his eyes burning a hole in the top of my head.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Around it, though, the rumble and the tapping continue, sometimes barely audible, sometimes more assertive, and the keyboard figure is soon punctuated by the aggressive plucking of a single bass string.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Fat mums and hydrangeas, perhaps punctuated with a sunflower or two, arranged in short vases that don’t interrupt conversation.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

He punctuated his performance with a fastball on the corner that ended the inning and wound up costing Atlanta its final ABS challenge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was punctuated by an automatic voice saying the caller was a prisoner, which is usual practice for calls from Iranian prisons.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

A shiny medallion punctuated his long black magistrate robes: a roaring tyrannosaurus inside a circle with some writing around it that Magdalys couldn’t make out.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

“Show me the criticism of raw milk if it’s safe,” he told me, one hand on the wheel, the other punctuating his points in the air.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

She manages comedy much better than sincerity but Coiro knows how to work around it, punctuating her big speeches with quick cutaways to comic relief so we don’t dwell on them too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

It looks more like a college campus with the occasional patch of grass punctuating the cell blocks.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025

The rookie Thiero also made his debut against the Bucks, scoring four points and punctuating his first NBA appearance with an emphatic two-handed dunk in the final minute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2025

My lungs were compressed like a bellows and each time my breath returned I yelled, punctuating the rhythmical action of the nodes.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison