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finger

[fing-ger] / ˈfɪŋ gər /






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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

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

"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

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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