fingernail

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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

"I only found a tiny little bit," she said, showing a fraction of her little fingernail.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Two days after the match, a small bruise appeared under my fingernail.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

Hewlett had detected metal buried inside some gravel—digging it up, he found a chunk of gold about half the size of his pinkie fingernail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Granddaddy opened his log book and riffled through it in the gloom, his thick yellow fingernail running down the columns.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly