finger
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To investigate why rheumatoid arthritis favors particular joints, the researchers examined two types of finger joints with very different patterns of disease susceptibility.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
When arguing with the prime minister, Mr. Gallant waved his right hand with thumb and index finger extended for emphasis, his eyes lit up with a rare fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The 26-year-old celebrated her 12.09 clocking with a finger to her lips as the crowd erupted.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
He goes on to explain why he isn’t playing, lifting a crooked finger to the camera and saying he is injured.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
She licked one finger and worked at a stain on her skirt.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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The gesture, made famous by Leonard Nimoy's character Spock, involves raising the hand with the middle and ring fingers parted.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
After moving heavy boxes of metal tools and parts by hand between cargo pallets, he strolls over, steps into the box, sits down and smiles, running his fingers through his hair like in the shower.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
And, notably, they eat Cane’s, whether it’s buying entire orders of just Texas toast or dunking their entire hand into a fountain cup of Cane’s Sauce and licking it off their fingers.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
The more Mitchell conjures joy and fear from thin air with the snap of his fingers, the more frustrating it becomes that audiences seldom get to experience summer fun at this caliber anymore.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Anna May drummed her fingers against the table.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
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
She still held her sewing and fingered the seams she’d just sewn.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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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
I close my eyes and reach in my skirt pocket, fingering the money Dad gave me.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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