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
Returning to the thumbtack analogy, Polikanov said the molecule sits on its ribosome seat with such force that it drives the tack into the chair.
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
But then I matched the map in the gift shop to the thumbtack holes.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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 were three boxes of thumbtacks, and one of those doggone Ticonderoga pencils.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
