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The state has also been a major oil and gas producer for more than a century, and authorities are well aware some 35,000 old, inactive oil and gas wells perforate the landscape.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2022

Scopes can cause bleeding or even perforate the bowel, something that occurs in about one of every 2,500 procedures.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2021

So that the Americans outshot the Canadians, 45-23, is important because they know they can perforate the defense in the gold medal game.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2018

“The wickedness in the world, we just let it perforate the album,” Bono said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017

To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

At its deepest point, the cut perforates about 3 inches into the tree’s trunk.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

Complications include chronic pain and mesh erosion, where the device cuts through tissue and perforates organs.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2022

Apollo 13 13: During Elon Musk’s maiden voyage, his ego becomes so big that it perforates the spaceship’s hull, necessitating a dangerous rescue.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2018

“Putting all this extra stitching in one place, however, actually perforates the fabric so I spread out the reinforcement stitching, forming an ‘X’ at each stress point.” 

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2012

In these instances the pus shows a marked tendency to spread, strips the periosteum from the bone, perforates the outer layer of the membrane, and finally infiltrates the surrounding tissues.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

Ioan, who broke both arms, and suffered a fractured rib and perforated bowel, said he wished his dad was still here to "watch me grow up and be my dad".

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

In 1897, American inventor Edwin S. Votey invented the “Pianola,” a self-playing piano whose perforated paper rolls functioned much like computer punch cards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

In her two-minute video, Jackson explained that the “really loud whistle” from her nose comes from her perforated septum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025

I started doing research into really nerdy stuff, and the perforated walls you see in the dark corridors are shipping pallets.”

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025

You have a perforated appendix and we need to get you into surgery.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander

The practice of perforating pipelines and storing oil in pools in the jungle is an environmental disaster, Reuters reported last year, after visiting clandestine refineries in Narino province.

From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023

But Borum noted that it’s not unusual for people with ulcers to be asymptomatic until they develop a complication, such as bleeding or perforating, as in Dingell’s case.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2021

While stationed in Liverpool as a Royal Air Force physical training instructor, a doodlebug landed near Max, perforating his eardrums and leading to a spell laid up in hospital.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2019

Beyond cataract surgery, eye specialists perform a long list of procedures, like eyelid and retinal repairs, corneal grafts, and microsurgery involving tiny needles and thread that allow precise suturing of perforating wounds.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2017

Modernity, led by the automobile, was perforating the frontier.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand