pointedness

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Noun
  • Nearly 90% of natural gas processing, fractionation, and storage is concentrated in four regions in the U.S., each subject to various environmental hazards that will incur greater complications and costs as climate change exacerbates natural disasters’ frequency and severity.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
  • Try supplements: Certain supplements, such as Riboflavin and CoQ10, can help reduce the frequency and severity of attacks.
    Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The results revealed that pla depletion decreases the virulence and increases the length of plague infections in mice.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2025
  • The diminished virulence that the pathogen evolved in response to more of its hosts dying potentially caused these earlier plague pandemics to fizzle out.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
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“Pointedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pointedness. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.

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