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Scientists have yet to pinpoint a definitive cause for the rise in rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
And she noted that the current salmonella outbreak didn’t appear to pinpoint Chipotle as the source.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
By identifying areas where the waves moved at lower velocities, the researchers were able to pinpoint the likely location of magma.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
But it’s hard to pinpoint where that delineation lies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
She witnessed those same moths fluttering, mating, and laying tiny pinpoint eggs of their own.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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It pinpoints companies that are integrating AI into their operations and that have recently ranked high on 22V’s “earnings sentiment” score—a statistical model that measures how likely each company is to beat analysts’ earnings estimates.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
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
A second, higher-resolution projection targets the midbrain with added precision and pinpoints dopaminergic neurons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025
He pinpoints his pitches with so much accuracy around the plate that batters are left feeling awkward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
More telling, the stone betrayed no delicate cracks, no pinpoints, not a single inclusion.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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 firm previously said that US authorities had not pinpointed specific concerns about its technology even as it ordered both platforms to be suspended around the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Now, for the first time, an international team of astronomers has pinpointed the boundary of the Galaxy's star-forming disk by examining the ages of stars.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 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
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The bulk of its commercial pipeline is anchored in markets for AI and data centers, with Few himself pinpointing that number at close to 80%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
But then there’s like a plethora of these phases of my life that are marked on YouTube, pinpointing the different ages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
This eliminates the costs and risks associated with pinpointing naturally occurring pockets of hot water, which are like needles in a haystack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
By pinpointing an issue where electric charge slightly spreads to neighboring pixels -- a phenomenon called the brighter-fatter effect -- the team designed algorithms that digitally corrected the images, fully restoring AMI's performance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
One later event appears to offer some hope in pinpointing the location of the Library.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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