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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of punctuate.

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Examples

  • Mr. Kelly said the Shanghai facility "punctuates" IBM's commitment to long-term research, where success is measured over the course of multiple years.

    IBM Expands Research Efforts in China 2008

  • So it really kind of punctuates the notion that we're gaining share with fewer titles.

    unknown title 2011

  • It kind of punctuates the scenes and makes some of them funny.

    TODAYonline 2009

  • The most frequently heard word punctuates the air, whether in a shout, a sigh, a giggle, or a gasp ... "

    DarienLibrary.org - It's for You! 2009

  • Not hidden is the hefty fieldstone fireplace chimney, which lends warmth and character to the living room and to the hallway behind, where the rising chimney punctuates the wall.

    A riverfront retreat, built with the long view Nancy McKeon 2010

  • She looked vindictive, lacking the maturity to restrain the nastiness and innuendo that typically punctuates her rhetoric.

    Sarah Palin proves -- again -- that she is a terrible politician Stephen Stromberg 2011

  • They-and their families and friends, know the true cost of risking everything to advance human knowledge, explore the unknown, and bring honor and glory and sometimes sadness that punctuates our times.

    This Memorial Day, Let Us Remember The Heroes of Space - NASA Watch 2009

  • Get ideas from magazine layouts and from the iconoclastic New York fashion plate Iris Apfel, who punctuates her exotic look with armfuls of bracelets from her travels to Africa, India and Asia.

    Ask Teri Teri Agins 2011

  • They are not the words of Christ but I included these extra texts just as Bach punctuates his Passion with Lutheran chorales.

    The Passion of James MacMillan 2009

  • It's greatly satisfying, then, to follow along as Lawton ties everything together with expert timing, breathtaking revelations and one quick, perfectly judged, genuinely frightening action scene that punctuates the ending.

    Review of "A Lily of the Field," a thriller by John Lawton Gerald Bartell 2010

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