finger
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"Christian bounces across in front of people where they can't lay a finger on him," Red Bulls head coach Dan McFarland told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The basic idea is similar to running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Another time, her personal shopper asked Parisian jewelry designer Yvonne Leone to make a ring to fit her finger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
After a couple days, Butler will try touching them, starting with their finger rather than their whole hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Mr. Andrews taps the side of his head with his index finger.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Dickinson imagines pondering a woman’s “workmanship” and remarking “‘This was last Her fingers did’ – / Industrious until –.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He smooths the features of the head -- which he says weighs more than a ton -- with a yellow sponge, while another craftsman adds clay to the fingers of the enormous hands.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Users can see data inside the glass, and snap their fingers to take a photo.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
For years, Marset had slipped through the fingers of law enforcement in multiple countries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Even when the letter fragment is back on the floor of my locker my hand still feels the filth, the invisible sick on my fingers.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
I looked over my plot, squatted down, and fingered the soil awhile.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
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Other remaining brand-name correspondents, including the ageless Lesley Stahl, for a while were feared to be fingering their rip cords too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
The false enthusiasm in my voice kind of sickened me, as did my hand fingering the door handle behind my back.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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