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points (to)

verb

present tense third-person singular of point (to)

as in indicates

to serve as a sign or symptom of the reduced production points to declining efficiency within the plant

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Initial evidence indicates Ceesay confronted the two men in the parking lot before shooting them, police said.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Firstly, the signal indicates that WIMPs have a mass around 200 times greater than the mass of a proton.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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What Hasty built instead compares each coach against the specific opposing talent his players faced, which means a good coach with a bad roster finally looks different from a bad coach with a good one.

— Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
This means the raccoon is probably a mother using your home as a nesting site.

— Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 30 Aug. 2026

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