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View synonyms for point out

point out

verb

  1. tr, adverb to indicate or specify
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Identify or bring to notice, as in He pointed out the oldest buildings in the city , or She pointed out an error in our reasoning . [Late 1400s]
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Example Sentences

So my way to point out his cultural cluelessness is to be even more clueless?

I point out that Connery speaks with a brogue and that our character is an American from New York.

Airline chiefs point out that this is a business where it is notoriously difficult to make money.

Around the time the Soviet Union collapsed, fans of capitalism liked to point out that it made clerks smile.

I point out the phrase “more distinct separation,” and I suggest that the purpose of the semicolon is at least in part rhythmic.

And here let me point out for your future guidance the importance of having a private secretary thoroughly up to his work.

It may, therefore, be as well to point out the principal distinctions between this bird and the Common Bittern last mentioned.

Probably the difference between the two is not sufficiently known; it may, therefore, be as well to point out the distinctions.

The sexton was soon found and he was delighted to point out the interesting objects in the church and vicinity.

I have already produced an instance to point out this, and shall now corroborate it with another.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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