bricks

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“They’re not pinpricks anymore,” said Nick Coleman, a consultant at Prism Strategic Intelligence, a London-based risk advisory firm.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

The domed blue ceiling is mottled with pinpricks of shining light, like stars emerging in the darkness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

It’s death by a thousand pinpricks, a succession of small indignities.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Resembling pairs of pinpricks from a human's vantage points, the features help the tiny amphibians fight each other, attract mates and crack open the shells of prey like crabs and centipedes.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2023

I could feel the water covering my ears so that I heard nothing but the blood in my head pulsing and saw nothing but pinpricks of light above.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen