thumbtack
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You’ll also need scissors, white paper, tape, aluminum foil and a pin or thumbtack.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
Broadcaster TVE showed a thumbtack that its reporter on a motorbike found on the course.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
“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
Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
But then one day he saw her standing before the bathroom mirror, solemnly applying, with the head of a thumbtack, a fresh stroke of scarlet powder, which she stored in a small jam jar.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
This summer’s Tour de France was also troubled by thumbtacks tossed on the road.
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
If Run the Jewels are the polemicist poets facing America’s racial reckoning with six-foot-high spray-painted lettering, Clipping’s members are the academics connecting the horrors of the country’s past with thumbtacks and string.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2020
There was a camp rule against junk food, so she’d wrap a bag of M&M’s in brown paper, cover it with a thousand pieces of tape, and label it thumbtacks or something.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
