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  • verb Present participle of puncture.

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Examples

  • Dreams, once again puncturing a popular myth, take place in your MIND.

    Who You Gonna Call? MYTHBUSTERS! 2006

  • Dreams, once again puncturing a popular myth, take place in your MIND.

    April 2006 2006

  • The time to "de-leverage," as Wall Street calls puncturing the debt bubble, is at hand.

    Eric Margolis: The World's Biggest Debtor Urges More Debt 2010

  • The time to "de-leverage," as Wall Street calls puncturing the debt bubble, is at hand.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • ABC: What attracts me about Auden's remark is it's a kind of puncturing of a particular kind of literary or poetic ambition or sentimentality, as if you can go out there and coin the slogans and people would just march behind you and do what you want them to do.

    Shakespeare - The Today Programme 2006

  • Indeed, the real testing time still lies ahead as we face increasing shortages in agricultural goods and in manufactured products, and increasing demand on the public purse as the alternative to "puncturing" of the retail ceiling.

    The Battle Against Rising Prices 1942

  • This is a vision of politics as a kind of puncturing, a rupturing of the accepted structure of reality.

    New Statesman Mark Fisher 2010

  • The court decided that none of the three men were guilty of what prosecutors claimed was their failure to act on knowledge that the design of the Concorde made its gas tanks vulnerable to exactly the kind of puncturing from burst tires that led to the 2000 crash.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • In doing so, the court decided none of the three men were guilty of what prosecutors claimed was their failure to act on knowledge that the design of the Concorde made its gas tanks vulnerable to exactly the kind of puncturing from burst tires that led to the 2000 crash.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • We undertake ongoing analysis of battery returns and that analysis shows that overheating is caused by user induced damage such as puncturing the battery with a sharp object or applying excessive force when removing the battery cover.

    Telecom Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

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