pointing
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Olympic Council of Asia director general Husain Al-Musallam said "numbers are facts", pointing to 50 world records broken at the Games since they opened on September 19.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Military experts who spoke to the BBC also think an invasion is a long shot, pointing to the multiple ways the two countries work together on defence.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Chinese electric-vehicle makers recorded subdued September sales growth, pointing to slowing demand and sending shares lower in Hong Kong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Even extremely small vibrations or pointing errors could allow unwanted starlight to leak into an image and overwhelm the much dimmer planets scientists hope to detect.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
“That one,” she said, pointing to the second button down.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life."
From Time Magazine Archive
They are very inquisitive, and, by their jabberings and pointings, incessantly, want Speke to show everything he possesses.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
What they meant, I knew not at first; but by their gestures and pointings I found at last it was to beg the young queen's life, and that I would not kill her.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
Bonnet had been talking to Herriot with quick gestures and pointings.
From The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
Then once more the whispers and pointings of a score of abnormal circumstances, uncertain, suggestive, indefinite, crowded in upon my understanding, like the confusion of simultaneous voices.
From The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings
