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point

[point] / pɔɪnt /








NOUN
scoring unit of sport competition
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Picking up her scent from a pillow, K-9 Naji tracked a starting point.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

In point 16 of the X post, Karp wrote: "The culture almost snickers at Musk's interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves."

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

So the big question now is whether investors should keep chasing chip stocks at this point.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

At one point, the talks envisaged Ford potentially making use of a Geely platform—common structural foundations on which different vehicles can be built—for future models, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Clare tried to muster some satisfaction that his point had been made, but for someone who’d just won, he felt an awful lot like a loser.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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