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The phrase "be pinpointed" is correct and usable in written English.
Similarly, you can use the phrase "pinpointed". You can use it to refer to the precise location or definition of something. Example sentence: The exact origin of the story can be pinpointed to the early 1900s.
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be pinpointed
verb
To identify or locate precisely or with great accuracy.
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An exact date of death could not be pinpointed.
Only around 90% of users can be pinpointed.
Problems can be pinpointed and fixed much more quickly.
The exact moment of its implosion can be pinpointed with digital, satellite-guided, high-tech accuracy.
By a process of elimination the most likely trouble spots can be pinpointed.
Once these disturbances are mapped, people can be pinpointed within them through their phone's magnetometer.
Unless a parenting opportunity can be pinpointed, our advice is not to intervene at all.
But regional differences and the precise time that Thanksgiving panic kicks in can be pinpointed as never before.
Purnell's probe is allegedly aimed at discovering whether alcoholics can be pinpointed as easily as drug addicts.
Justin Pine, the fourth researcher, told The Guardian that "everybody loses" but "this issue cannot be pinpointed on Peru".
In NBC's case, the Monday turnaround can be pinpointed to the network's new psychic friend: "Medium," starring Patricia Arquette, above.
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