thumbtack
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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
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
We motored over to Aaron Island, a small thumbtack of wilderness surrounded by water.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2019
There are nails and thumbtack holes all over the walls where pictures and posters have been removed.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
“You use thumbtacks, Tiona uses a razor blade,” Sadie Barnette, who shared residency time with her in 2018 at the Skowhegan School, said of her precision.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Then, without saying anything, he walked over to the picture of the sun, pulled one of the thumbtacks from it and hung his picture beside it.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
