finger
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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
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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
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"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
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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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