punctuate

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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

As framed by beautiful, evocative pairings that punctuate the show’s final galleries, the conversation continued, with some of Manet’s later boudoir interiors and portraits of fashionable Parisiennes unthinkable without Morisot’s example.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

But don’t think for a moment that it’s Cimino in the driver’s seat in those head-spinning racing sequences that punctuate every episode.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

Director Philip Barantini pulls in for tight closeups and fades in and out of sound, bringing in the pattering of the rain outside to punctuate the blow of Jamie’s worldview.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2025

Now, there are many people who claim that they do fully punctuate text messages.

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