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“Obsession,” on the other hand, wags its finger at projecting a fantasy onto your crush.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Of course, so much of what’s otherwise known points a finger directly back at Taylor Farms, false-positive atom splitting notwithstanding, and there’s only so much the company can do to deflect.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

The judge was shown photographs of a red-ink tattoo reading "Celeste" on Burke's left ring finger, as well as a "Shhh..." tattoo on his right index finger.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The goal ruined a superhuman effort by Argentine keeper Emiliano Martínez, who made 11 saves while playing with a fractured right ring finger that will require surgery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

He traced the face of it with his finger and felt his heart settle a tiny bit as he closed his eyes and pictured his father’s smile.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

It's fingers crossed for him at the moment though - SpaceX succeeded in its fourth attempt, he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Aghast at the ways of men, he’s dug his own Circe-like fingers into Homer to manipulate the tale into a moralistic “Oppenheimer” prequel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Cafeteria staples like pizza, burgers and chicken fingers will be made with higher-quality ingredients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

I had my fingers crossed that “Late Night” would haul out Mee-Maw for one last jig when it returned on Monday.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

He spread his fingers out, then clasped his hands together.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"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

And it fingered Diana Teran, its own constitutional policing advisor, as the source of the leak, even though Teran was the one who’d initially reported it and denied passing along the information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

Kote fingered the buttons of his shirt for a moment, then decided against removing it.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Mrs. Muokelu exclaimed, fingering the plastic half of a yellow sun that she wore on a string around her neck.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie