finger
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As if this whole affair weren’t self-satisfied enough, Iñárritu jabs his finger at the audience one last time.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The basic idea is similar to running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
She came towards the front of the stage and gestured "no, no, no" with her finger for them to stop.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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
With his finger at the place, Father looked up.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
A fan appeared to throw a water bottle at the glass window, while others yelled and displayed their own middle fingers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 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
Out front, Anna May sat in an elm scholar’s chair, running her fingers along the thin curved arms.
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
She still held her sewing and fingered the seams she’d just sewn.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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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
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
He looked away, fingering a frayed edge of the carpet.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
Some of the accused named names, fingering friends and colleagues in the entertainment industry.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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