How to Use finger-pointing in a Sentence

finger-pointing

noun
  • The handling of the crisis has led to finger-pointing among Democrats.
    Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Quite possibly, and right now there is a lot of finger-pointing about that.
    WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Leonsis has walked back his finger-pointing at crime as the reason.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Thanks to the frenetic finger-pointing, the facts have not caught up to his myth-making–until now.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • Jalen Hurts has regressed, the defense is struggling and there’s some finger-pointing in the locker room.
    Rob Maaddi, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Here's the latest on the search and recovery efforts and the high-stakes finger-pointing after a tragic mission gone wrong.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
  • The potential breakthrough ends a lengthy impasse marked by miscues and finger-pointing on both sides.
    Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024
  • For far too long, Swampscott and Lynn have engaged in as much denialism and finger-pointing as pipe-fixing.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • An anxious and ashamed Allison wants to bolt, but Daniel, looking to surmount his own anger and finger-pointing, urges her to stay and confront her demons.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Leadership and teams were finger-pointing and passing off blame.
    Anne Sugar, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • But the end result was ho-hum 82-80 record, no postseason and an endless stream of finger-pointing and alibis.
    Jay Paris, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • On Tuesday, the FAA released its own charts - a sign that this summer could again see finger-pointing between the government and the industry.
    Ian Duncan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
  • In the weeks to come there would be breathless news segments, finger-pointing, misinformation, and dashed hopes.
    Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Without naming names, Ocasio-Cortez denounced some of the nasty finger-pointing that has erupted in left-wing circles over what went wrong.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • His flagship show’s star, Kevin Costner, is exiting the series amid anonymous finger-pointing in the press.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
  • Kody Brown is not happy that the family is spending Christmas apart, but Robyn Brown has no patience for his finger-pointing.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The time to act is now, not in the aftermath of a crisis, when there is a dearth of sensible thinking and an abundance of overreaction and finger-pointing.
    Sheldon H. Jacobson, The Mercury News, 20 July 2024
  • There's been a lot of political finger-pointing in East Palestine.
    ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The abrupt implosion of the country's 16th-largest bank last week resulted in swift finger-pointing in Washington.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • With no clear path forward, the Republican party has resorted to name-calling and finger-pointing, much to the glee of of late-night TV writers.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
  • While cloud seeding has been an easy culprit for internet finger-pointing as the flooding occurred, it is not known if cloud seeding played a role.
    The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024
  • But the vacuum of real information about what’s going on here has left a gap that fans have chosen to fill with a lot of finger-pointing and side-taking.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 1 June 2024
  • Desperate for answers on what went wrong on Election Day, finger-pointing among Democrats and media pundits has been swift.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • In the coming days and weeks, there'll be plenty of finger-pointing about what exactly led to Donald Trump's decisive victory in the election.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Some of the arterials in New Haven and other cities are state roads, a situation that has sometimes led over the years to spats and finger-pointing over who was responsible for what on the roads.
    Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2024
  • But when mistakes are made, everyone is finger-pointing.
    Richard Lebovitz, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Weather and war, finger-pointing and final farewells, each crisis brought questions about what was to blame — human folly or forces beyond our control?
    Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The aftermath featured finger-pointing among the state’s Democratic Party leaders and growing calls to strip the state of its first-place status in the primary schedule.
    Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The bipartisan push comes amid partisan finger-pointing over the response to the disaster.
    Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, various politicians have continued their finger-pointing-from-far that has been going on for the past couple weeks.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023

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