thumbtack

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

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

I think of Finch and Amanda, and then I look at the closet door, where you can still see the thumbtack holes from my calendar.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

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

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

From his toolbox, Papi pulled out a package of green thumbtacks.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago