forefinger
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In a study published in 2022, Makin used a nerve blocker to temporarily mimic the effect of amputation of the forefinger in her subjects.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
I don't know how to put this other than to form a rhetorical circle with my thumb and forefinger signaling a big fat goose egg.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2023
Simultaneously, people had to press a button on the steering wheel with their left forefinger each time a small device attached to their left collarbone vibrated.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2023
And from then on it's all about gesture control - the headset tracks where you are looking so when you look at an app and pinch your thumb and forefinger together, it opens.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023
Mr. Hundy leapt to his feet, eyes blazing, pointing a trembling forefinger into the audience.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
To emphasize the designer’s practicality-meets-design approach, Rogen gestured to another Bosse creation, this one a hand-shaped brass ashtray with forefingers poised mid-pinch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
“It’s not just some words on wall,” Traylor said of the motto signified by a hand gesture that creates a triangle with the two thumbs and forefingers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
And then, perhaps, he puts his thumbs and forefingers together to form a square so that he can look at her through the square.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
They reach out their arms and use their thumbs and forefingers to pinch the air in front of them.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2018
I reached down with the tips of my two forefingers and tickled the tiny, furry spaces behind the rat’s ears.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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