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pinpoint

[pin-point] / ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt /


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“You don’t need to pinpoint it the way I do, but I like to give people a number,” Buffardi said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The sounds come from all over, a mix of old and new whose origins are difficult to pinpoint, and they are assembled to conjure amusement and delight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Persisting, Fielder asks Christian to pinpoint a turning point in his daughter’s life.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The air board started working with Carbon Mapper last spring to pinpoint methane emissions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

As it grew light, the weather got better, and once again Marina was able to pinpoint where they were.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Three decades after predicting the Asian crisis of 1997, one strategist pinpoints similarities between the financial contagion that spread across Asian economies then and the current AI investment boom that he thinks is a bubble.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025

A second, higher-resolution projection targets the midbrain with added precision and pinpoints dopaminergic neurons.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 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

There was no use risking theft or discovery because of a few pinpoints of light reflected in an abandoned window.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

With his responses, Torres pinpointed the location and was able to touch Gil's fingers.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

It correctly pinpointed the risks to markets, said Rubin Miller, chief investment officer at Peltoma Capital Partners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

When he looked down, he had pinpointed Grovers Mill, a rural village in the center of New Jersey about fifty miles from New York City.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

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

The genomic evidence has been critical in pinpointing the reservoir of the plague in Central Asia and in tracing its lightning-fast diffusion along trade routes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

In time, the pinpointing of control areas will become more and more detailed.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman


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