Examples of point of departure in a Sentence
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There are several reasons why, politically, New York would make a logical point of departure for Trump’s deportation machine.
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Stephanie Rupp, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
That’s the goal for the 250th, to remember that this is an amazing point of departure.
—Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
The round trip air transportation element begins and ends at the point of departure.
—USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
The fact that the prime minister’s reform policies are not especially nationalist or protectionist—a point of departure from the platforms of figures such as Trump and Le Pen—has encouraged him to turn to questions of pure identity to establish his credentials as a Hindu nationalist.
—Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2017
Using the South Shore Cultural Center, a lakeshore landmark with rich historical and architectural significance, as a point of departure, Dyson extracts, reduces, and refines architectural and visual cues into geometric shapes and painterly abstractions.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Under the initiative, passengers would undergo one screening at the international point of departure.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
Much in the way film was an inspiration to comic artists in the early twentieth century, theater offered a logical point of departure for organizing narrative in nineteenth-century comics.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
But this series, unlike so much of the endless Marvel hyperlinking and spinoffs, feels like its own world and own point of departure.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2024
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Stephanie Rupp, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
That’s the goal for the 250th, to remember that this is an amazing point of departure.
—Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
The round trip air transportation element begins and ends at the point of departure.
—USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
The fact that the prime minister’s reform policies are not especially nationalist or protectionist—a point of departure from the platforms of figures such as Trump and Le Pen—has encouraged him to turn to questions of pure identity to establish his credentials as a Hindu nationalist.
—Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2017
Using the South Shore Cultural Center, a lakeshore landmark with rich historical and architectural significance, as a point of departure, Dyson extracts, reduces, and refines architectural and visual cues into geometric shapes and painterly abstractions.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Under the initiative, passengers would undergo one screening at the international point of departure.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
Much in the way film was an inspiration to comic artists in the early twentieth century, theater offered a logical point of departure for organizing narrative in nineteenth-century comics.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
But this series, unlike so much of the endless Marvel hyperlinking and spinoffs, feels like its own world and own point of departure.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Point of departure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/point%20of%20departure. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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