pointy

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Verstappen - like Schumacher before him - is renowned for liking a "pointy" car, ie one with a sharp front end and responsive turn-in.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Wagner carries a purple cooking thermometer—the kind with the long pointy needle that you might use to check on your steak—to check for optimal chill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

This bold diagonal, cut through the prim Quaker street grid, produced a great many awkwardly shaped blocks, including the pointy trapezoid between the Parkway and the Vine Street Expressway that houses Calder Gardens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

“With the xenomorph pointy teeth or flat teeth, I’m like, ‘Oh, flat teeth is so much worse.’

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2025

It is music that shall be heard as long as there are goblins to play it, as long as warts and pointy ears persist on this earth.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin