Words similar to upward-pointing

Example sentences for: upward-pointing

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A recent news item in The Times [November 1992] published in the international press presumably to call delighted attention to the obtuseness of the chief of police of Dearborn, Michigan, concerned an officer who was suspended for three days to seek psychiatric help in disabusing himself of his obsession for writing the figure 7 with a bar through it to distinguish it from the figure 1, a disambiguating practice long followed in Europe where it is the practice to write 1 to look like the left half of an upward-pointing arrow.