thumbtack
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Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
In 2017, BuzzFeed News reported a long list of stomach-churning discoveries: A woman unearthed a thumbtack in her Cheerios, and a man bit down on a bone from his box of Frosted Mini-Wheats.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2021
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
One of his fellow riders joked that if there had been a thumbtack on his bike seat, it might have felt better.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2017
A red thumbtack marked the location of Bumblebee, smack-dab between Spindale and Forest City.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
It’s as visually pulse-pounding as thumbtacks on a driveway, and an invitation to close one’s eyes and concentrate on the A.S.M.R. pleasure of shuddering steel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 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
They stuffed this around the doorjamb and fixed it over the knotholes with thumbtacks borrowed from the Fujitas.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
