puncture
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Participants received doses of up to 70mg of zorevunersen through a lumbar puncture.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026
A little more than a year ago Shiffrin was recovering from a surgery to repair a puncture in her abdomen after a crash in Vermont.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
Empirical facts have the power to puncture partisan echo chambers and other closed-off belief systems.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
All the volunteers will have the current gold-standard tests for Alzheimer's which involve a specialised brain PET scan using a radioactive tracer, or a lumbar puncture to remove a sample of cerebrospinal fluid.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026
They never even had guts enough to puncture it, to jab a hole in it.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing puncture
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
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