point toward

verb

pointed toward; pointing toward; points toward
Synonyms of point towardnext
: to show that something is true or probably true
Everything points toward a bright future for their company.
The results from these tests point toward a different conclusion.

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Hale pointed toward the sky and urged them to look up as three military jets roared above the crowd. — Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026 Street permits, fencing and a suspicious quantity of foliage point toward a wedding celebration, though neither Swift nor Kelce has publicly confirmed what is happening inside the arena. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 2 July 2026 Though police initially didn't suspect foul play, the evidence discovered at the scene of Huisentruit's disappearance quickly pointed toward suspicious circumstances. — Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026 If Boltanski’s work recalls Saarland’s grim past, Regenera, by another French artist, Benjamin Duquenne, points toward a hopeful future. — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for point toward

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“Point toward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/point%20toward. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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