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The word 'punctures' is correct and can be used in written English
It is most commonly used as a noun to refer to small holes or tears in a surface, usually in a tire or inflatable object. It can also be used as a verb, meaning to pierce or make a hole. Example: The cyclist had to stop and fix the puncture in his bike tire before continuing the race.
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Third person singular of puncture
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Belgium: Rosberg punctures Hamilton's left rear tyre when they collide on the second lap.
Doctors, meanwhile, have found he has a scar, about an inch long, on his right arm and a series of smaller punctures on other parts of his body.
When Torino met Juventus back in September, Immobile got so caught up in the game that he wound up leaving four deep punctures in Tevez's right ankle.
In Suez, we did not have the Arabs," says Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister.The rest is silenceThe Libyan crisis also punctures some inflated hopes about other European countries.
Such assertiveness punctures happy Euro-dreams of a multipolar world.
Andy Grove, a co-founder of Intel, was constantly looking for "the black cloud in the silver lining .A second myth that Mr Collins punctures is that innovation is the only virtue that counts.
This event has no precedent: a British company drilling a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico punctures the earth's skin, unleashing a plume of oil that nobody seems able to stop.
It punctures the mystique that helped allow the security services to gain such clout under Vladimir Putin, Russia's former president and present prime minister and a former KGB spy.
The tendency is brilliantly described in today's Guardian by Sir Simon Jenkins (once a distinguished journalist on The Economist), and Simon also neatly punctures some of our more alarmist views of al-Qaeda (though his view might seem a bit cavalier, given 9-11 or the violence in Somalia and Yemen).Even at its height a decade ago, al-Qaida could do no more than stage a few terrorist spectaculars.
Before the relief well punctures Macondo, engineers may also if the government allows them pump some heavy mud down from the now-capped wellhead.
But it is also a taboo-breaker, which is one reason it has enjoyed the most successful opening in Iranian film history".Marmulak" punctures clerical self-esteem more comprehensively than any Iranian film since the ayatollahs took power in 1980.
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