pointing
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The prices paid index rose six points, pointing to a pickup in input price increases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The new orders index came in at 17.3, and the shipments index printed at 11.7, pointing to continued solid increases in orders and shipments, the survey said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“The arrow is pointing up for Will,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“If you continue on this trail, you can walk all the way to Maine!” my dad said, pointing northward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
When his list was complete, he should begin pointing to each number in turn.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
They were most unpleasantly inquisitive, and by their stares, jabber, and pointings, incessantly wanting me to show them everything that I possessed, with explanations about their various uses, quite tired out my patience.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
Really all the explanations and pointings in the world will not show a person the exact position of his neighbor's soul.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
He was at first powerless to do more than say "Oh, Clytie!" with little impotent pointings toward the candy cane.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
