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People like Rupar, who post candid videos and photos that reveal his human weakness, pierce through the increasingly fragile White House efforts to prop up the 80-year-old president as the epitome of strength and masculinity.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

Depending on the species, chelicerae can function as pincers or fangs that grip, pierce, or stab prey.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Some courts may be less willing to extend trust protections in such cases, though courts do not routinely pierce spendthrift protections simply because the underlying conduct of a beneficiary was wrongful.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

The noise is deafening: Horns blare, whistles pierce the piercing cold.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026

Do their prayers also vanish on the wind, or do they pierce the dome of heaven and reach God’s ear?

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The sound of anti-aircraft guns pierces the sky as conversations at the market revolve around rising prices and the coming winter.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

More than with Alzheimer’s, in which personality tends to be preserved even as memory fades, FTD pierces the illusion of a continuous identity that persists through life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As we talk, on occasion the screeching call of a toucan pierces the quiet, and miles above, the same giant black birds hover menacingly in groups, surveying everything below.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

When gold pierces through supply growth by 50%-plus — compared with gold-mining output up around 1% — something is being questioned.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

Your knowing, you think it gives you clarity, sight that pierces.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

A steel beam had pierced a subway station like a lawn dart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

A mother and her unborn twins miraculously survived after a metal pole fell off a truck on a Southern California freeway, pierced her car windshield and struck her in the stomach, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Archaeologists recently uncovered jewelry that included a pierced deer tooth and beads, all carbon dated to around 11,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026

I struggled to regain my composure after the first shock wave pierced my heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Their howls pierced a hole through the moonless night.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Blending Yoruba, Catholic and mystical traditions, their photos feature jet-black subjects that blend into inky backgrounds, their eyes piercing the darkness as they stare at the viewer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In a four-star review, external, the Times noted how Heaton's "casually funny" and "deceptively piercing" latest album "again confirms his gift for dissecting human weakness with an unsentimental but humane eye".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

But just then, a piercing pink light appears outside, and a low, opaque mist begins to creep through the seams of your tent.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

I brace my nervous system for the piercing shriek, let it play like my own little theme song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Don Joaquín’s voice rose in timbre and pitch, until he seemed to disappear and only his words remained, reverberating against the cement walls, piercing the assembled into delirious convulsions and ecstatic trances.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago