pointer
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The balls of both feet and the ends of both pointer toes had been mashed into misshapen blisters.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
These computers let a user guide a pointer with a mouse, clicking on interface elements and selecting commands from drop-down menus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
But it was Wales who reacted best, Rogers scooping up a Dan Edwards pass out of the backdoor to cross for a five pointer the outside-half also converted.
From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025
That’s a pointer to one of Musk’s most dearly held goals, which is to populate Mars with humans, transported to the Red Planet presumably by Musk’s rocketship company SpaceX.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Little Fern had grabbed my pointer finger and was working on it with her new bottom tooth.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Service technicians say if you’re going to consult a chatbot, keep these pointers in mind:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The meeting with Costa Rica was a sharp contrast, a fierce physical test with plenty of helpful pointers for Tuchel before England face Croatia in Dallas on 17 June.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Some extra pointers on rate locks may help buyers decide if the move is right for them.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
"He's good to give you little pointers and little nuggets of experience that he had in run-ins and things like that, so he's been good as gold," McInnes said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Linds and I were high pointers, top-scoring swimmers, and that had always afforded us some status.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
