as in to look (toward)
to stand or sit with the face or front toward
the town's monument to its lost fishermen points toward the sea, the source of its wealth as well as its sorrow
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The tech outage impacting United’s flights comes just two weeks after Alaska Airlines faced a similar issue, which forced it to ground its entire fleet for three hours.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
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By the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, some areas of medicine, such as psychiatry, would face increasing criticism, including from social movements representing women and LGBT people.—
Time,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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The Refreshments, fronted by Roger Clyne, split up the following year, with Clyne forming his band the Peacemakers in 1999.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
5 Aug. 2025
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Britain was swaggering on the global stage once more, fronted by a new pantheon of pop culture gods.—
Thomas Page,
CNN Money,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Point (toward).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/point%20%28toward%29. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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