puncture
Example Sentences
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Participants received doses of up to 70mg of zorevunersen through a lumbar puncture.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026
Empirical facts have the power to puncture partisan echo chambers and other closed-off belief systems.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
Frustration among young Americans who haven’t been able to buy their own homes needs to be tackled in a way that doesn’t puncture swollen housing equity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
Sheriff officials posted about the incident on social media, sharing a photo of the surfer’s board with several puncture marks from the shark’s teeth.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025
The clouds passed off, though, and we had only one puncture, and everybody at Cudn Temp’s like to had a fit about the motorcar.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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