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They spray confetti into the audience to punctuate their biggest songs, and add an honorary fifth member, Ryan Malcolm, to flesh out their sound with swells of keyboard and additional rhythm guitar.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 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

He used sparse lighting to create ominous atmospheres in his work that he would punctuate with distorted images and unsettling ambient noises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Glimpses of Mother smiling and following along, giggles from Jenna, and hollow protests from Father punctuate the journey.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

Mr. On Blast punctuates his weak jokes with very entertaining dance moves punctuated with sound effects.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 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

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

“Man, I love this guy,” says Dylan, and he punctuates it with a squeeze.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The discussion was punctuated by a pair of outbursts from the audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

The enigmatic trumpets sounded at the film’s beginning re-enter, their meaning now terribly clear; the orchestra convulses and collapses, and Alex marches upstairs, shown in an aerial shot punctuated with doleful timpani.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Antonelli looked to have taken control of the race as he cycled from third on the initial grid to the lead after two standing starts punctuated by a long delay because of Verstappen's crash.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

It wasn’t until the fifth that Skubal at last punctuated Jac with a K.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

His voice was calm and evenly punctuated, like the tap of Linotype keys.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

He has said that Trump has admiringly called him a "tough cookie" in private conversations, punctuating the point with a serviceable impersonation of the president.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

A Chinese military court issued suspended death sentences to two former defense ministers for corruption, punctuating a broad purge of China’s armed forces that has ousted most of the high command.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Even Marin’s incessant flippancy and Chong’s “maaan”s punctuating every other sentence become enjoyable the more time one spends with them.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 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

The Gryffindor common room was much quieter than it had been lately, many yawns punctuating the lazy conversations.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling