fingernail
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The woman sighed, tapped her screen with a fingernail and said, “It’s right there.”
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Every second, about 65 billion neutrinos from the Sun pass through your little fingernail.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
At the August hearing, McCaslin said she wants to decide other evidentiary issues, including whether the defense will be allowed to test DNA found under Maggie’s fingernail with new genetic-genealogy techniques.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
When used together, these ingredients produced a formula that allowed a smartphone to register a fingernail touch, marking an important early success.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
With one maroon fingernail she tapped the top of the Diet Coke she’d bought just after school, then popped the tab.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
He scraped the bottom of the pool with his fingernails and provided a few treatment tips of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Researchers are now working on a clear nail polish that could make that possible by turning long fingernails into touchscreen-compatible styluses.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
“Keeping the dirt under my fingernails with projects like this, and watching shows as often as I do, you realize how hard and how much creativity and magic there are around shows,” Lovett said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
He paints his fingernails and is no stranger to samba dancing in the finish area, wanting to bring more colour to alpine skiing.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Akhlys’s gnarled fingernails dug into Hercules’s shield, gouging the metal.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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