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as in puncture
a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument
during the lesson the boy absentmindedly made perforations in his paper with his pencil
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as in aperture
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
poked the button through a perforation in the fabric
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Recent Examples of perforation
Its finish does a fine job of highlighting the panel perforations on its top, front, and lower sides.
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PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2025
The first is that the density of perforations is a balance.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
Dollar General warned that accidentally ingesting glass fragments may cause injury, including damage to teeth, mouth and throat, lacerations or perforation of the intestine.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
At night, the wall’s perforations are backlit to reveal what the stars looked like on May 5, 1718, the day San Antonio was founded by Spanish colonizers.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
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PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2025
The first is that the density of perforations is a balance.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
Dollar General warned that accidentally ingesting glass fragments may cause injury, including damage to teeth, mouth and throat, lacerations or perforation of the intestine.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
At night, the wall’s perforations are backlit to reveal what the stars looked like on May 5, 1718, the day San Antonio was founded by Spanish colonizers.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perforation
Noun
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Henry, 5, suffered internal bleeding and puncture wounds, court documents allege, WSB-TV 2 reports.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Safer to claim and puncture by approaching from the side.—
Courtney Kampa,
The Atlantic,
21 Sep. 2025
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It's designed for deep sky astrophotography, while also being well suited to image capture of the Sun and Moon – with its camera system built around a Sony IMX585 sensor and 50-mm aperture.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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This month, Tapestry laid out the strategic plan that will guide it for the next three years, focusing pushing Coach toward $10 billion in sales and opening the customer aperture, targeting not just women who bought bags last year, but also women who could have.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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If the goal is a lineup with as few holes as possible, the Hurricanes do so more emphatically than any other team in the league.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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The wire makes digging up the bulbs more difficult, but allows the foliage to easily grow through the wire holes.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Perforation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perforation. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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