forefinger
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The procedure, called umbilical cord milking, involves gently squeezing the cord between the thumb and forefinger and pushing the blood into the newborn's abdomen.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
I don't know how to put this other than to form a rhetorical circle with my thumb and forefinger signaling a big fat goose egg.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2023
Simultaneously, people had to press a button on the steering wheel with their left forefinger each time a small device attached to their left collarbone vibrated.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2023
And from then on it's all about gesture control - the headset tracks where you are looking so when you look at an app and pinch your thumb and forefinger together, it opens.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023
Helmuth jabs at the page with his forefinger.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
To emphasize the designer’s practicality-meets-design approach, Rogen gestured to another Bosse creation, this one a hand-shaped brass ashtray with forefingers poised mid-pinch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Before receiving their handouts, men signed a list by pressing their forefingers dipped in blue ink; women used red.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2022
Press the butter pieces between your thumbs and forefingers into small, flat pieces.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
When she landed firm and kept her footing on her final jump, she pointed one, then both forefingers to the sky.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
Very deliberately, Kingshaw inserted his forefingers under the string, and pulled the satchel off his back.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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