Pointers
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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A three-run seventh aided by an El Camino Real error helped the Pointers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
Read the full memo below: Pointers: Discuss these points in response to candidate inquiries.
From The Verge ● Jan. 4, 2022
This is a time-honored tradition among West Pointers, to rely on the mythical, but very real, “WPPA,” the West Point Protective Association.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2019
Ruth still fronts the Pointers Sisters, even if there are no longer any sisters in the group; it’s still a family affair, however, with Ruth’s daughter Issa and granddaughter Sadako now filling out the ranks.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2017
They lived near the water and had grown up, like all Grosse Pointers, pretending that our shallow lake was no lake at all but actually the ocean.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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