pointy
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They’re also huge — females can exceed 800 pounds and males 1,500 or more — with pointy horns and protective instincts, especially around the young.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Paper-based products of the future, the company says, could be made with hesperaloe, a plant with long, pointy leaves that grows in arid climates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
A small, goggle-eyed creature with pointy ears and a mouthful of jagged teeth has somehow become one of the defining consumer products this decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
And this is where we get to the pointy headed end of this row: a debate about the meaning of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
“If you’ve harmed one tip of my officer’s pointy ears...”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Since pointier wings indicate stronger flying and dispersal abilities, the team predicted such birds would be better equipped to respond to environmental pressures than those with rounder wings.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
Coyotes, for example, have pointier snouts and longer ears.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
Southern resident orcas have rounded tips on their dorsal fins, while transient orcas have pointier dorsal fins.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
Rickshaws also have a distinct appearance—a classic autorickshaw, for instance, is yellow and green—and Amazon’s rickshaws look, well, like pointier versions of the sleek gray Amazon vans.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020
She pierced her mound of hair with the pointier end of the hairpin.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
In fact, only the very pointiest decoy, the eight-sided die shape, got pushed out almost every time.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
“Put animals in a small, closed space, and the one with the sharpest nails, the pointiest teeth wins.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
They're a linguistic tag-team, riffing off each other's answers and competing to make the pointiest barb.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2017
In broadcasting, it is not necessarily the sharpest wit but the pointiest elbow that often gets the prize.
From Time Magazine Archive
