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Example Sentences
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Fuller-Seeley says that “singing ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?’ really caught on in popular culture as a way of trying to thumb your nose at the Great Depression.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
The 26-year-old collided with the advertising hoardings in the 76th minute of Wednesday's game and he fell to the floor clutching his thumb after looking at the wound on his right hand.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
Their rule of thumb is that a sustained 10% increase in oil boosts the inflation rate by 0.2 percentage points, and the core inflation rate by 0.04 points.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
But "never did we anticipate or expect them, I think, to be able to hold in their brains, which aren't much bigger than your thumb, information over thousands of square miles," he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
I grab the whittling book that Steph got me and thumb through it.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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