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finger

[fing-ger] / ˈfɪŋ gər /






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Natalia leaves out healthy finger food, like chopped peppers and apples, for her children to pick at.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

The goal ruined a superhuman effort by Argentine keeper Emiliano Martínez, who made 11 saves while playing with a fractured right ring finger that will require surgery.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Digit ratio compares the length of the index finger, known as 2D, with the length of the ring finger, known as 4D.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

"You couldn't even get your little finger in there. It's been a year and a half, but my eye still feels strained and I constantly want to force it open," she told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Nor could I see the necessity for the complete undressing: when we finally reached the examining room a doctor looked down each throat, another—a dentist presumably—at our teeth, a third in between each finger.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

It's fingers crossed for him at the moment though - SpaceX succeeded in its fourth attempt, he says.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

By contrast, lawmakers can count on a few fingers the times former Sen. Vance has set foot in the Capitol.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

I had my fingers crossed that “Late Night” would haul out Mee-Maw for one last jig when it returned on Monday.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

And they didn’t point fingers at anyone — anyone at all.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Anna May leaned back and began to drum her fingers on the table again.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"It's more a theme park than a shopping mall," Germany supporter Michael Karg, 48, said as he fingered through an A-Z list of restaurants on a digital directory.

From Barron's Jun. 27, 2026

So it didn't take long for Mr Freeman – legally known as Desmond Filby – to be fingered as the alleged culprit.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2025

They attacked France as a liar who had fingered Leasure to save himself.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2024

And while a species commonly known as "the rat flea" has been fingered as the main culprit in plague outbreaks, a species known as "the human flea" may play a secondary role.

From Science Daily May 1, 2024

Alexandra, puzzled, fingered Jean Louise’s garments and said, “But what possessed you to go in with your clothes on?”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Chopin sought to convey these moods through explicit performing directions about fingering, pedaling and slurring.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 29, 2026

"I tend now to play parts of chords, rather than fingering the whole damn thing. I use these shortcuts that would be a nightmare for a guitar teacher."

From BBC Nov. 21, 2023

For more than a decade, scientists have debated which animals alive today hail from that earliest sister, fingering two phyla as the most likely candidates: sponges and comb jellies.

From Science Magazine May 17, 2023

She had a leopard scarf elegantly wrapped around her head and was fingering a glittering ring and staring blankly into the distance.

From Reuters Feb. 7, 2023

These she presented to her daughter, who sat in a chair by the window or lay in bed fingering, fingering her hair.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison




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