as in pointed
tapering to a thin tip
wears high heels with very pointy toes even though they kill her feet
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Recent Examples of pointy
At the pointy end of the hockey season, when the leverage of every result is enhanced, survival matters.
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Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Tired of traveling in the same old pointy planes?
—Daniel Wine, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
On top of that, hollies with pointy leaves can be painful to run into.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Mar. 2025
Going has three membership tiers, but the best one for those looking to fly at the pointy end of the plane is the Elite tier.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 19 Mar. 2025
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Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Tired of traveling in the same old pointy planes?
—Daniel Wine, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
On top of that, hollies with pointy leaves can be painful to run into.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Mar. 2025
Going has three membership tiers, but the best one for those looking to fly at the pointy end of the plane is the Elite tier.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pointy
Adjective
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Ahn and Schamus seek to answer that question with the knowledge that acceptance brings pointed complications of its own.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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Rogen’s pointed remarks made a big impression during the ceremony, with one attendee telling Deadline late last week that many in the room were wondering whether the jabs would be cut from the telecast, whose release was delayed by a week.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The aviation industry expects the exemption to help companies keep costs down during a sharp pullback in travel spending by consumers worried about slower economic growth and higher inflation.—
Rajesh Kumar Singh,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Effects from the other types include painful, red eyes with yellow discharge, a sore throat, stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, a dry cough, difficulty breathing, sharp chest pain and weight loss.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2025
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Standing in front of an array of 4,500 Canadian solar panels and across from a wall topped with barbed wire, Gov. Ned Lamont today announced the completion of seven solar projects at prisons located in Enfield, Cheshire and Somers.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2025
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Some of the humor has a barbed, geopolitical aim in a war for the world’s hearts and minds — see the Chinese government’s fusillade of memes — but political scientists say that, for many people, humor is a natural response to stressful times.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Pointy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pointy. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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