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pinholes

noun

plural of pinhole

as in punctures

a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument pinholes in a bedsheet will look like stars if you shine a light from behind it

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Recent Examples of pinholes The blank walls stared at her, vacant pinholes made by previous tenants peering down like dark, shrunken pupils. —

Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026 Instead of dotting the same black scrim, like pinholes in a two-dimensional theater backdrop, the stars were scattered through space at dramatically varying distances, a vast swarm of them filling every last corner of an even vaster, more numinous, and emphatically three-dimensional darkness. —

Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026

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Attenborough communicated with the tribe using gestures, looked at their personal ornaments and enquired about the pegs in the ritual punctures in the nose of one of the men.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
The pay reality punctures that myth entirely.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026