thumbtack
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First, punch a small hole in the middle of one of the cards using a thumbtack or a pin.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
The methyl group acts like a tiny thumbtack set out on the seat the antibiotic was hoping to take, Polikanov said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
“Honey! Did you see the picture of Angie’s labradoodle?” she might ask as I walked into her small white room to thumbtack another family photo to the otherwise bare walls.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
You might even wish to write down what you feel, laminate it and thumbtack it to a free-standing bulletin board for all to see.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2018
I take a thumbtack and hang the picture next to the drawing before sitting down on my bed and grabbing my pocket notebook and pencil off my bedside table.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
They’ve come to this cesspool to find the villainous Krem, an unrecognizably vile Matthias Schoenaerts with a mug that’s been pierced all over like he face-planted into a pile of thumbtacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Both defending champion Remco Evenepoel of Soudal-Quickstep and two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard had punctures, according to their teams, although neither specified if they were caused by thumbtacks.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
While we are on ravioli, even if they are stuffed with thumbtacks and rusty pennies, they are better than spaghetti.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023
The audience — yet Kemper’s no-nonsense pixie who suffers a dozen thumbtacks to the face runs a close second.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
The best thing in the whole room was one wall that was covered with pictures of some horses cut out of a bunch of magazines and stuck on the wall with thumbtacks.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
