"pointy end" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "2010 June 24, Mike Jacoubowsky, “Lance Armstrong pulls out of the Tour de France !!!”, in rec.bicycles.racing (Usenet), message-ID <mNSdnc5qYtPBt7_RnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@earthlink.com>",
          "text": "Lance has nothing to worry about. Others may; some young idiot is going to see an opportunity to take advantage of a possibly-clean pointy end of the pack and do something stupid, thinking he might get away with it.",
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          "ref": "2018, Sam Mitchell, Relentless, Macmillan Publishers Aus.",
          "text": "It would be a surprise if this wasn't a key focus for all clubs in the 'Big Dance' at the pointy end of the year.",
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        {
          "text": "2018 November 28, Young, Andy, “Industry urged to engage with Sydney’s late-night trading plan”, in The Shout, archived from https://www.theshout.com.au/news/industry-urged-to-engage-with-sydneys-late-night-trading-plan/ on 27 August 2020.\nBut the point I really want to make is that we need you, as the industry, to help make people care about [this plan]. The public consultation is the pointy end of this whole process for the 'late night map of fun'."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Jacquie Underdown, Meet Me in the Middle (Wattle Valley, #2), HarperCollins Australia",
          "text": "They were getting to the pointy end of the season, only a couple of months until the finals.",
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        "The part of something which is the most extreme in some aspect (for example, the most difficult, the latest chronologically or the highest numerically)."
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        "(chiefly Australia) The part of something which is the most extreme in some aspect (for example, the most difficult, the latest chronologically or the highest numerically)."
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          "text": "at the pointy end of the plane",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pointy, end."
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          "word": "business end"
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      "synonyms": [
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          "word": "pointier end"
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          "word": "pointiest end"
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          "ref": "2010 June 24, Mike Jacoubowsky, “Lance Armstrong pulls out of the Tour de France !!!”, in rec.bicycles.racing (Usenet), message-ID <mNSdnc5qYtPBt7_RnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@earthlink.com>",
          "text": "Lance has nothing to worry about. Others may; some young idiot is going to see an opportunity to take advantage of a possibly-clean pointy end of the pack and do something stupid, thinking he might get away with it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Sam Mitchell, Relentless, Macmillan Publishers Aus.",
          "text": "It would be a surprise if this wasn't a key focus for all clubs in the 'Big Dance' at the pointy end of the year.",
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        },
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          "text": "2018 November 28, Young, Andy, “Industry urged to engage with Sydney’s late-night trading plan”, in The Shout, archived from https://www.theshout.com.au/news/industry-urged-to-engage-with-sydneys-late-night-trading-plan/ on 27 August 2020.\nBut the point I really want to make is that we need you, as the industry, to help make people care about [this plan]. The public consultation is the pointy end of this whole process for the 'late night map of fun'."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Jacquie Underdown, Meet Me in the Middle (Wattle Valley, #2), HarperCollins Australia",
          "text": "They were getting to the pointy end of the season, only a couple of months until the finals.",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pointier end"
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    {
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  "word": "pointy end"
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