finger
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The basic idea is similar to running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The lawsuit, filed by the Clarkson Law Firm in August, claimed: "Oura rings cannot measure one's sleep or cycles. That's because sleep happens in the brain, not on one's finger."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He goes on to explain why he isn’t currently playing, lifting a crooked finger to the camera and saying he is injured.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Another time, her personal shopper asked Parisian jewelry designer Yvonne Leone to make a ring to fit her finger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
With a flick of his finger, he made it spin, gleaming, glinting.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Villagers keep their fingers crossed that power cuts do not last long or that their back-up systems are sufficient.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He smooths the features of the head -- which he says weighs more than a ton -- with a yellow sponge, while another craftsman adds clay to the fingers of the enormous hands.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Users can see data inside the glass, and snap their fingers to take a photo.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Plus: Crypto blew its big moment and now everyone is pointing fingers, and how Harley-Davidson became a tariff punching bag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Willem pressed his fingers to his eyes and I noticed suddenly how much white was in his beard.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"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
They attacked France as a liar who had fingered Leasure to save himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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
She touched them with her own, and fingered his lapel, and then gripped it and shook it gently.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
When we passed the herbs, she knelt at the sage, fingering the silvery-green leaves.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
