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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

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

Throughout the series, friendship bracelets are traded, strangers become fast friends, crew members form family bonds, and surprise guests punctuate intimate backstage moments.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

“Go. Over. There,” I say, and punctuate each word with a kiss.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

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

When the chorus finally lands—“Take a load off, Fanny”—it’s Manuel who punctuates the song’s vocal stylings.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025

Once more, it was a realpolitik that punctuates the Portuguese's career - and would sit well with the realism of Hardy.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025

Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

At the Albuquerque groundbreaking ceremony, the site was mostly dirt, punctuated by a pair of Deere excavators holding up an American flag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

His anecdotes are punctuated with nervous laughter, although he's better at making eye contact than when we first met in the Killers' heyday.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

In his telling, the combination made him conceited and aggrieved and accounted for the bizarre explosions of rage that punctuated his youth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Pitching at Yankee Stadium for the first time, he punctuated a clean first inning by getting ahead of Paul Goldschmidt with 101.8- and 101.7-mph fastballs, en route to a five-pitch strikeout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

Smithy punctuated the term by plunging the hot iron into a bucket of water.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The funniest part of that conversation is when Sam labels Judith a WOACA, a Woman of a Certain Age, pronouncing it as if he were Fozzie Bear punctuating a joke in an old-timey stand-up set.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Jabs were scarce; instead, the fight descended into clinches from Clarke and heavy leaning from TKV, with lunging, telegraphed punches punctuating the action.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 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

“I’m holding and I will buy more tomorrow! already 30k shares. LET’S GO,” one wrote, punctuating the statement with a large number of exclamation points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

Mother read every word out loud, punctuating each sentence with her tears.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat