pointing
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Apple and Amazon remain in bullish chart patterns, with potential breakouts pointing toward $390 and $320, respectively.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Instead of pointing toward the same group, each gene suggested a different and unrelated family.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, the E-mini Nasdaq 100 futures contract is 0.4% lower, pointing to a weak opening for tech stocks in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Audiences have become accustomed to Mungiu pointing out uncomfortable truths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“He was just standing there, pointing that stick at our house.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life."
From Time Magazine Archive
Add to all this labor, the neat work upon the rigging;—the knots, flemish-eyes, splices, seizings, coverings, pointings, and graftings, which show a ship in crack order.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
One must imagine the pathetic effect of their former silent pointings to this and that conventual treasure under stress of the feeling that such pointings were narrowly numbered.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
Add to all this labor the neat work upon the rigging,— the knots, flemish-eyes, splices, seizings, coverings, pointings, and graffings which show a ship in crack order.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
He amplified this with unmistakable pointings at his mouth and suggestive rubbing of his stomach, and Towahg started off at a run toward trees that were heavy with strange fruit.
From Brood of the Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin
