pinpointed
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Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak have pinpointed a winter night in 2016 as the turning point, when the justices “issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling” on Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
Scientists at UC San Francisco have now pinpointed a protein that appears to drive much of this decline.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
And the company has pinpointed an exact year by which it’s urging the public to prepare for this event.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
His company pinpointed underground parking lots and hotel ballrooms as possible shelter areas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Like Mollie, he was struck by the peculiar vagueness of Lizzie’s sickness; no doctor had ever pinpointed what was causing it.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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