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"She just does a survey with her nose, essentially, she can pinpoint exactly where it is, so it's much easier," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
But to pinpoint his net worth at a specific point in time, MarketWatch used the 1901 buyout of Carnegie Steel to J.P Morgan as a benchmark for his peak wealth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The air board started working with Carbon Mapper last spring to pinpoint methane emissions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Police say the information provides unprecedented ability to identify suspects, pinpoint stolen vehicles and locate missing persons.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Not many young people can pinpoint the exact date, time, and place they grew up and became an adult.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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Three decades after predicting the Asian crisis of 1997, one strategist pinpoints similarities between the financial contagion that spread across Asian economies then and the current AI investment boom that he thinks is a bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
They combined single-cell sequencing, which identifies which receptors each neuron expresses, with spatial transcriptomics, which pinpoints where those neurons are located.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2026
It pinpoints companies that are integrating AI into their operations and that have recently ranked high on 22V’s “earnings sentiment” score—a statistical model that measures how likely each company is to beat analysts’ earnings estimates.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
The research for the first time pinpoints a short period 48,000 years ago when Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals after leaving Africa, after which they went on to expand into the wider world.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
Ethan lets go, his eyes blinking to pinpoints, his hand held in front of him like it’s on fire.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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The Journal pinpointed the loans by using company names Group 1001 disclosed as affiliates and uncovering dozens more by linking signatories on Delaware corporate registration records to organizations that have worked with Walter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
He was initially tested for Lyme, and it wasn’t until a monthslong antibody study that the Bourbon virus—so far found in only a handful of cases nationwide—was finally pinpointed as the culprit.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Authorities said they hadn’t yet pinpointed a cause for the Dove fire, which burned in the hills southwest of Sonora — a town outside of Yosemite National Park in southern Tuolumne County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
With his responses, Torres pinpointed the location and was able to touch Gil's fingers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Five years later, scientists in Cambridge pinpointed the difference between the protein chain of normal hemoglobin and “sickled” hemoglobin to a change in a single amino acid.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Establishing responsibility was also challenging because it required authorities to share maps pinpointing fire hotspots, with overlapping land claims further complicating matters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Forecast models can often identify the risk of thunderstorms across a wider area, but pinpointing precisely where and when an individual storm will strike is very hard.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
It turns that data into usable information for clients, with its satellites tracking ships, providing information about hard-to-patrol regions and pinpointing sources of global-positioning system jamming, the company has said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
In the meantime, she said, the startup plans to grow — “slowly ... so that every author’s needs are taken care of” — and keep pinpointing publishing “blind spots.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
In time, the pinpointing of control areas will become more and more detailed.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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