point out
verb
pointed out; pointing out; points out
1
: to direct someone's attention to (someone or something) by pointing
He pointed his girlfriend out (to me) in the crowd.
Could you point out the restrooms, please.
2
: to talk about or mention (something that one thinks is important)
He was quick to point our mistake out.
He pointed out the benefits/importance of daily exercise.
As she likes to point out, she distrusted him from the beginning.
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Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, likes to point out that the cheapest drone in Ukraine costs around $6,000 and is enough to take out two tanks worth $5 million each.
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Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
But as Cuban pointed out, gold has greatly outperformed Bitcoin over the past year, although Bitcoin has trimmed gold’s lead over the past three months.
—Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 26 May 2026
In September 1911, Garros broke an altitude record, soaring to nearly 13,000 feet (without the extra oxygen that modern planes have above 10,000 feet, Moore points out).
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 May 2026
Tillmans frequently displays his work tacked or taped directly to the gallery wall, interspersed with postcards, ink-jet prints, and magazine clippings, calling into question typical hierarchies of scale and subject matter and pointing out the photos’ materiality.
—News Desk, Artforum, 26 May 2026
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Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
But as Cuban pointed out, gold has greatly outperformed Bitcoin over the past year, although Bitcoin has trimmed gold’s lead over the past three months.
—Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 26 May 2026
In September 1911, Garros broke an altitude record, soaring to nearly 13,000 feet (without the extra oxygen that modern planes have above 10,000 feet, Moore points out).
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 May 2026
Tillmans frequently displays his work tacked or taped directly to the gallery wall, interspersed with postcards, ink-jet prints, and magazine clippings, calling into question typical hierarchies of scale and subject matter and pointing out the photos’ materiality.
—News Desk, Artforum, 26 May 2026
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“Point out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/point%20out. Accessed 31 May. 2026.
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