pointy
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A small, goggle-eyed creature with pointy ears and a mouthful of jagged teeth has somehow become one of the defining consumer products this decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
They’ve stood the longtime food pyramid on its pointy head, instead promoting lots of meat and whole milk foods over a healthier diet grounded in whole grains and vegetables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
“It’s because they’re served in a pointy glass or a coupe that we’re calling them martinis.”
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
This bold diagonal, cut through the prim Quaker street grid, produced a great many awkwardly shaped blocks, including the pointy trapezoid between the Parkway and the Vine Street Expressway that houses Calder Gardens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2025
“If you’ve harmed one tip of my officer’s pointy ears...”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Since pointier wings indicate stronger flying and dispersal abilities, the team predicted such birds would be better equipped to respond to environmental pressures than those with rounder wings.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
Southern resident orcas have rounded tips on their dorsal fins, while transient orcas have pointier dorsal fins.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
Rickshaws also have a distinct appearance—a classic autorickshaw, for instance, is yellow and green—and Amazon’s rickshaws look, well, like pointier versions of the sleek gray Amazon vans.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020
Everyone was... not mean to each other, but a little pointier.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2018
Velma T.’s back stiffened; her lips pursed; even her nose seemed to get a little pointier.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
In fact, only the very pointiest decoy, the eight-sided die shape, got pushed out almost every time.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
“Put animals in a small, closed space, and the one with the sharpest nails, the pointiest teeth wins.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
They're a linguistic tag-team, riffing off each other's answers and competing to make the pointiest barb.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2017
In broadcasting, it is not necessarily the sharpest wit but the pointiest elbow that often gets the prize.
From Time Magazine Archive
