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pierced

verb

Definition of pierced

past tense of pierce

as in penetrated

to go or come in or into thoughts of revenge relentlessly pierced her mind

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as in drilled

to make a hole or series of holes in pierced his ears with a needle

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as in stabbed

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object the saber pierced his chest, releasing a spurt of blood

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Recent Examples of pierced And the beep, beep, beep of the garbage trucks preparing the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center for sunrise and another day of tennis pierced the moments of silence. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The bullet pierced the restaurant glass and left a diner with a minor injury. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2026 The morning following the storm, co-owner James Durawa told WISN 12 News that a tree pierced part of the restaurant's tin roof and would cost about $18,000 to remove. — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Her brown leather jacket was pierced with 60 stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed nearly ear to ear. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Poy was wounded in a second land mine explosion that pierced his face and body with shrapnel and killed three of his colleagues. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 Multiple bullets pierced Bridegan’s body and vehicle – one just inches from his toddler, Bexley, who was uninjured and crying, still strapped into her car seat, according to CNN affiliate WJXT, which cited prosecutors. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026 Once the center was pierced and the leadership structure failed, the Maratha army could not make an organized retreat. — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026 Last month, the image of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo being pinned to the ground, his torso pierced by a bullet, became the latest evocation of that history. — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026

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Jefferson had two second-half possessions that penetrated Peach County's 5-yard line and had just three points to show for it.

— Jack Leo, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026
But the late-night revelry definitely penetrated the walls of her hotel.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of penetrated

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The Commanders elected to cut Moody after the first preseason game — a game in which Moody clanked a 29-yarder off the upright and through and Stevens drilled his only attempt, from 41 yards.

— Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Miles of steel cables were drilled at least a foot deep into the mountain rock, to ensure dozens of climbers are safe to traverse the mountainside simultaneously.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of drilled

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Two years later, Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Up to this point, Ghostface victims have been stabbed with Buck 120 hunting knives, crushed by garage doors, shot, electrocuted, and thrown off rooftops in ferocious, balls-to-the-wall Scream fashion.

— Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of stabbed

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After the Giants punched their ticket by sweeping two games from the Ports, Haines confirmed that Flora would take the ball one more time in next week’s best-of-3 series against Lake Elsinore.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
In this case, that means getting a shiner to look like he’s been punched while Kirk tweaks the sensors just enough to put the recovered La’an on the trail of the wrong Kirk.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of punched

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The needle accidentally punctured Taylor’s lung, causing chest pain and difficulty breathing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
The crash broke more than a dozen ribs, punctured her lungs and left her with spinal cord injuries that left her in a wheelchair.

— Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of punctured

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The design also divides the plant into maintainable sectors, allowing equipment to be accessed and serviced over its operating life.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
In the days after the Hugging Face hack went public, the tech companies Anthropic and Meta both revealed that their models had also accessed external networks during internal evaluations.

— Shaun Raviv, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of accessed

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Better together Industry analysts, experts and insiders have consistently poked holes in the states' argument that the combination of TV networks would create antitrust issues.

— Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
So too were the buildings, including my hotel, which poked through the seven-foot-high snowbanks, looking like an ancient shipwreck covered in shifting sand.

— Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2026

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