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pinpoint

Speech parts

1. pinpoint - Noun

2. pinpoint - Adjective

3. pinpoint - Verb

Meaning

locate exactly

the sharp point of a pin

a very small spot

a very brief moment

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You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy. Cassandra Clare

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love. Erich Segal

I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena. Samuel Beckett

I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing – it's just beautiful to watch. Paul Scholes

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure? Richard Pryor

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time. Ruth Ozeki

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