Synonyms for pinpoint
ˈpɪnˌpɔɪntpin·point

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1. pinpointnoun

   a very brief moment

   "they were strangers sharing a pinpoint of time together"

   Synonyms:
   speck

2. speck, pinpointnoun

   a very small spot

   "the plane was just a speck in the sky"

   Synonyms:
   speck, atom, jot, molecule, particle, touch, mote, tinge, soupcon, corpuscle, mite, pinch, hint

3. pinpointverb

   the sharp point of a pin

   Synonyms:
   speck

4. pinpoint, nailverb

   locate exactly

   "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"

   Synonyms:
   sweep through, apprehend, collar, peg, breeze through, sail through, ace, pass with flying colors, nail, nail down, complete, pick up, nab, boom, arrest, cop, blast, smash

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1. List of paraphrases for "pinpoint":

   identify, locate

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1. Stephen Galloway:

   The results can be gigantic, it allows ATF and local law enforcement to pinpoint who the shooters may be. And what I mean by that is, you may have multiple crime scenes where eyewitnesses are giving you information that vaguely matches. NIBIN is now telling you for sure that these crime scenes are connected.

2. Tim Murtaugh:

   Voters know China was a bad actor on the virus. The president made clear to pinpoint China as the origin of the virus, we're going to push this.

3. Kate Bossert:

   (Post-apocalyptic storytelling) takes the unknown and makes it very physical and very visible, in ways that actually are not always true to life, narratives that pinpoint the thing we’re afraid of, there’s almost a comfort in that.

4. Kevin McCarthy:

   When you sit back and you look and you want to pinpoint when was the bellwether, when was the moment in time that you truly felt that you knew that the majority was in play and you had the capability of winning – when Ron Kind said that he was retiring.

5. Christopher Onken:

   I could hardly believe my eyes when I came upon a little object that appeared to be moving across images taken by SkyMapper, these last images before the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere were SkyMapper's biggest contribution. They helped to pinpoint both the search area for the meteorite fragments on Earth and the meteor's origin in space.