finger
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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
After a couple days, Butler will try touching them, starting with their finger rather than their whole hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
As Garcia continued talking, Benn put a finger to his lips, smiled and eventually turned away and left the stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The team used single-cell sequencing, advanced image analysis and high-resolution 3D X-ray scanning to build a detailed map of human finger joints as they developed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
Nor could I see the necessity for the complete undressing: when we finally reached the examining room a doctor looked down each throat, another—a dentist presumably—at our teeth, a third in between each finger.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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He smooths the features of the head -- which he says weighs more than a ton -- with a yellow sponge, while another craftsman adds clay to the fingers of the enormous hands.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
You feel a surge through your body and then a whip out of your fingers.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Plus: Crypto blew its big moment and now everyone is pointing fingers, and how Harley-Davidson became a tariff punching bag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Yes, I’m hoping to see some Oscar contenders while I’m here and have my fingers crossed for a few movies I’ll be seeing shortly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Renn took the mitten and turned it in her fingers.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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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
Isa fingered one of the dresses on the bed.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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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
‘Not alone!’ said Gimli, fingering the blade of his axe, and looking darkly up at the guard, as if he were a young tree that Gimli had a mind to fell.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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