fingered

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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 it fingered Diana Teran, its own constitutional policing advisor, as the source of the leak, even though Teran was the one who’d initially reported it and denied passing along the information.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 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

However, during the reinvestigation, he told prosecutors that he was made to feel like a suspect and that he had fingered Smokes and Warren partly to “avoid getting arrested himself.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Sam and Frodo were only a few steps up, and Gandalf had just begun to climb, when the groping tentacles writhed across the narrow shore and fingered the cliff-wall and the doors.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien