finger
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Those responses included pressing a button using either the index or middle finger on either hand.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Secular Israelis were prepared with a counter-protest, blowing whistles to drown out the chants and with some wearing pink lapel buttons showing a middle finger.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
It is rare for the alliance to point a finger at Moscow so quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Galactic power and privilege literally placed themselves on Hal’s finger simply because he answered one question correctly.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
She studied me for another second, and I wondered if I was going to get chewed out for something when she sighed and held up a finger.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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The more Mitchell conjures joy and fear from thin air with the snap of his fingers, the more frustrating it becomes that audiences seldom get to experience summer fun at this caliber anymore.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Particularly impressive were improvements in robotic hands, Sarkar said, wiggling his fingers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
John’s left arm had atrophied, his hand now basically a claw, and two of his fingers were numb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Roggatz, 35, dutifully got to work ridding his grass of the gifts from his dogs, Django and Scout, with a plastic bag pinched between his fingers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
It’s a red shirt, his red flag, reaching to pull me out of the depths of the endless sticky mud, and I feel again, my fingers slip through his.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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"It's more a theme park than a shopping mall," Germany supporter Michael Karg, 48, said as he fingered through an A-Z list of restaurants on a digital directory.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
So it didn't take long for Mr Freeman – legally known as Desmond Filby – to be fingered as the alleged culprit.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
They attacked France as a liar who had fingered Leasure to save himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
And while a species commonly known as "the rat flea" has been fingered as the main culprit in plague outbreaks, a species known as "the human flea" may play a secondary role.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
Hanako fingered her braid to make sure it felt like it did when Mama braided it.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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Chopin sought to convey these moods through explicit performing directions about fingering, pedaling and slurring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
"I tend now to play parts of chords, rather than fingering the whole damn thing. I use these shortcuts that would be a nightmare for a guitar teacher."
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023
She had a leopard scarf elegantly wrapped around her head and was fingering a glittering ring and staring blankly into the distance.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023
He looked away, fingering a frayed edge of the carpet.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
“Clown Alley,” says Kinko, fingering some paint jars on a dresser.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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