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[pin-point] / ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt /


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His pinpoint pass picked out Kai Havertz for the opening goal.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

What makes things even more difficult is that it’s impossible, as of now, to pinpoint the exact time and location of a downpour, even though it can be gauged with marvelous accuracy.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

Foley, however, cautioned that trying to pinpoint any one factor of disease growth is probably shortsighted.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Patients and families are turning to AI to help pinpoint conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The sabotage targets had been carefully selected to pinpoint areas that, when attacked, would create bottlenecks in the American war industry.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

The composition is utterly still, devoid of human presence and enlivened only by fluttering harbor flags and the canvas’s scintillating pinpoints of color.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

"By identifying different parasite subtypes inside cysts, our study pinpoints which ones are most likely to reactivate and cause damage," she said.

From Science Daily Jan. 27, 2026

To repeat, possible Japanese intervention would reverse the flow of liquidity into global markets that Edwards pinpoints.

From Barron's Nov. 22, 2025

The exact coordinates of this backwater are a bit hazy, but Storyteller 2 helpfully pinpoints the locale as “a place where being from somewhere is who you are.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2025

Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

He was initially tested for Lyme, and it wasn’t until a monthslong antibody study that the Bourbon virus—so far found in only a handful of cases nationwide—was finally pinpointed as the culprit.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

Authorities said they hadn’t yet pinpointed a cause for the Dove fire, which burned in the hills southwest of Sonora — a town outside of Yosemite National Park in southern Tuolumne County.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The exact location of William Shakespeare's only London property has been pinpointed to a Blackfriars street, after an unknown floorplan was discovered.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

The oldest of the vulnerabilities uncovered by Mythos dates back 27 years, and none were ostensibly noticed by their makers before being pinpointed by the AI model, according to Anthropic.

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

Further investigation eliminated other suspects, like the ruffian oil workers who had been pinpointed by Harve Freas, the ousted sheriff.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Forecast models can often identify the risk of thunderstorms across a wider area, but pinpointing precisely where and when an individual storm will strike is very hard.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

By pinpointing hydrogen radicals as a dominant force, scientists now have a clearer picture of the chemistry involved.

From Science Daily Jun. 16, 2026

It turns that data into usable information for clients, with its satellites tracking ships, providing information about hard-to-patrol regions and pinpointing sources of global-positioning system jamming, the company has said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

FactSet is pinpointing $59.5 billion, at the midpoint of that range.

From Barron's Apr. 2, 2026

Not that pinpointing another Book Scavenger user was an easy thing to deduce, even in the smallest and quietest of schools.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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