punctured

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During the Palisades fire in January 2025, a drone punctured a hole in the the wing of a Super Scooper plane.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

The image of Dubai as a prosperous and contemporary city "is now being punctured", Yasser Elsheshtawy, professor of architecture at Columbia University, told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

But McLaughlin’s confrontational declarations to the press routinely punctured this fiction.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2026

Aggressive interest-rate hikes punctured the blistering price increases that slammed the economy in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

With it, she punctured the pad of her index finger.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini