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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Weiss now faces three major challenges.—
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But companies that don’t have an issue with undocumented workers are facing the friction of having employees pulled aside by ICE officials.—
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Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social exclusion of Afghan women.—
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The show is billed as an ambitious new reality series fronted by Nour Arida, who is one of the most influential Arab women.—
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“Point (toward).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/point%20%28toward%29. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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