thumb
Example Sentences
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Is there a rule of thumb or a percentage of income at which entertainment spending starts to meaningfully impact long-term goals?
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
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
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
He pushed his thumb into the palm of his hand.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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