finger
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As Garcia continued talking, Benn put a finger to his lips, smiled and eventually turned away and left the stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Right-hander Roki Sasaki, who went on the IL last month with a blister on the middle finger of his right hand, threw a simulated game Wednesday afternoon and could return shortly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
As I slid my finger across the display, I could feel it, but it’s more subtle than Samsung’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
“The curse says that the princess will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. Well, do you see anything sharp on this wheel? Here’s the spindle.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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"I don't want to point fingers and point any players out tonight," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Yes, I’m hoping to see some Oscar contenders while I’m here and have my fingers crossed for a few movies I’ll be seeing shortly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Now, they can be counted on your fingers."
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
These devices fit on our fingers or wrists, and can’t read our brain waves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
One by one we had to bend, turn around, spread our fingers.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
Mama paused and again she reached out and fingered one of the little toadstools.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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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
Because numbers are used in music to identify everything from beats to intervals to harmonics to what fingering to use, this naming system is sometimes less confusing.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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