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thumbprint

[thuhm-print] / ˈθʌmˌprɪnt /


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These versions are also much larger: while an O’Ryan’s potato is about the size of a thumbprint, See’s can stretch up to three inches long.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026

In Hammani’s retelling, he relented after four days, applying his thumbprint to a written confession, which he wasn’t allowed to read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

“Writing is a way of marking existence. For me to have that as a thumbprint foundation to pretty much everything that I do is like: Before anything else, someone was here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

That thumbprint made at Stalag 8b inspired Jacqueline to search for more answers in a Facebook group for relatives of prisoners of war.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024

The EGG will only work with his thumbprint.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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