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- verb Present participle of
puncture .
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Examples
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Dreams, once again puncturing a popular myth, take place in your MIND.
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Dreams, once again puncturing a popular myth, take place in your MIND.
April 2006 2006
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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
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The time to "de-leverage," as Wall Street calls puncturing the debt bubble, is at hand.
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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.
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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.
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This is a vision of politics as a kind of puncturing, a rupturing of the accepted structure of reality.
New Statesman Mark Fisher 2010
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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.
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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.
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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.
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