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Recent Examples of perforate Grater-style zesters employ the same principle as a standard food or cheese grater and sport a longer metal shaft perforated with numerous small holes. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025 To remove anything securing the cardboard together, either use a sharp tool, such as a box cutter, to carefully perforate the tape at the edges, or use a flathead screwdriver to pop out staples. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 7 Mar. 2025 Experimental reenactments suggested that, at Little Muck Shelter, trimming ostrich-eggshell beads before perforating them was slightly more successful than perforating before trimming. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025 The $65 book’s canvas hardcover is perforated to offer glimpses of campaign images and product details. Joelle Diderich, WWD, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for perforate
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Verb
  • Your allies probably have LGBTQ+ coworkers, cousins or that person from their yoga class who has a labret piercing and a rainbow carabiner.
    Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
  • This mistake of not tackling law, tax and financial decisions in a unified manner results in the corporate veil being pierced, personal assets being liquidated, and even bankruptcies and liquidations.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
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  • Chisholm, fresh off the injured list following an oblique strain, drilled Tanner Bibee’s first pitch of the frame at 105.7 mph.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 June 2025
  • Bryant continued making timely plays by drilling a corner 3 with about eight minutes left in the third quarter, his second of the night, to push Indiana’s lead to 11 points.
    James Boyd, New York Times, 1 June 2025
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  • When the victim initially resisted, the suspect kicked and punched him and forcibly grabbed a wad of cash from the vehicle, police said.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
  • Surveillance footage captured the group catch up to him and attack him, continuing to punch and kick him on the ground, deputies said.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025

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“Perforate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perforate. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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