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finger

[fing-ger] / ˈfɪŋ gər /






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The text scrolls as he speaks, and it can also be controlled via a ring on his finger.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Some passing drivers honked in support and gave the protesters a thumbs-up, but others gave them the middle finger.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Kessler, the Lakers’ big acquisition at center from the Utah Jazz, has been nursing a finger injury he sustained after hitting the backboard during practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

In one, she holds up a finger covered in red marker to look like blood, pretending to be a patient who asks how much stitches will cost, and is later shocked by the bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

It was a string of herring eggs and six candlefish the size of my little finger.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

At the new Shanghai store Super Zhuanzhuan, shoppers have to wear black gloves to avoid their greasy fingers touching the products.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Lacking fingers with flexible joints, the robot’s grippers had difficulty getting traction on the smooth surface of the glass.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Dodgers failed Ohtani this summer, and now all that remains is for them to cross their collective fingers and hope for the best.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

As her eyes adjusted to the gloom, she saw that her mittenless fingers were white and hard.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

"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

Speculation has fingered everyone from political insiders to drug traffickers as the ones behind Colosio’s assassination, which contributed to a sense of upheaval in Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

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 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

The sun fingered its way through tiny green new leaves, and as it moved over the ground, as its light spread, the pointed buds opened.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

“What’s gone downhill is security,” Wilcox said, fingering Mali and Burkina Faso.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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

For more than a decade, scientists have debated which animals alive today hail from that earliest sister, fingering two phyla as the most likely candidates: sponges and comb jellies.

From Science Magazine ● May 17, 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

Devon shook his head when he saw me standing in the lunch line yesterday, fingering an imaginary fret, making the appropriate sound effects.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes


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