pierce

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Stocks may find it challenging to pierce through higher longer-term bond rates heading into 2026 especially given that U.S. equities already trade at expensive valuations and broader indexes are largely led by rate-sensitive tech companies.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

Instead it helps bring home the horror movie’s big theme about the transcendence of art for oppressed people, including “music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

You’re saying this was a situation where just having some rudimentary sense of who pays tariffs and how they work was an actual bonus because it got to pierce through what Sauer was saying.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

"The world is watching. The cries of children should pierce our hearts," he said.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

She would trust her own instincts, which she now knew to be right, and develop a shell so hard that nothing could pierce it, not even being deserted by Salvador.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty