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His kids, on the other hand, were both single, childless adults in their 50s, yet they never lifted a finger.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

He went on to train as a metalworker and found work in an industrial city near São Paulo, where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an accident in the 1960s.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Born to illiterate farmworkers in Brazil’s impoverished northeast, da Silva lost a finger in a metalworking plant before rising through the labor movement to become president in 2003.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

He stopped, and his finger hovered as he looked at the link.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Not even a cursed girl could prick her finger on that.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

“This is America, my friend,” Waltz shouted, tapping his fingers for emphasis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Put your other hand on top of the first and interlock your fingers.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

“It was like everyone was just pointing fingers at someone else, and no one was actually doing anything about it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

A celebratory mood gripped the capital, with drivers honking their horns and passers-by holding up three fingers -- the winning list's ballot number and a Serbian greeting.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

On the first two fingers of her left hand, she wore leather finger-guards, and strapped to her right forearm was a wrist-guard of polished green slate.

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

Her mother fingered the edge of Sitti’s sleeve.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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

‘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