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finger

[fing-ger] / ˈfɪŋ gər /






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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

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

"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

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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