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In one, she holds up a finger covered in red marker to look like blood, pretending to be a patient who asks how much stitches will cost, and is later shocked by the bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The basic idea is similar to running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Anderson’s original “Resident Evil” film franchise, the writer-director — known for his abrasive, nu-metal vulgar auteurism — raises a middle finger of sorts to his detractors.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Right-hander Roki Sasaki is working back from a blister on his middle finger and is penciled in to return from the IL next week against the Padres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was a string of herring eggs and six candlefish the size of my little finger.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

It’s the reason so many of us walk to our cars with our keys poking through our fingers, why we tense up when someone walks too closely behind us on a dark street.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

Arms out, fingers splayed, she takes a comic-book summoning pose familiar from decades of mutant movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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 went shopping, he bought things like cream and chocolates instead of fish fingers and bread," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

He picked up a pen and began to roll it between his fingers, his arm outstretched with his wrist resting on the edge of the desk.

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

Speculation has fingered everyone from political insiders to drug traffickers as the ones behind Colosio’s assassination, which contributed to a sense of upheaval in Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

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

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

When she entered the circle they looked at her and smiled, and then someone next to her fingered the cloak she was wearing and spoke to another in a musical language she didn’t understand.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

So stupid as I sit shivering here in this cellar, tallying up our losses, fingering the tassels on the silver knee-high boots I stole from the woman’s home.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins