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finger

[fing-ger] / ˈfɪŋ gər /






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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

Galactic power and privilege literally placed themselves on Hal’s finger simply because he answered one question correctly.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

The France defender could easily have pointed the finger at Chelsea themselves.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

She pointed an old bent finger, sighted down it, and cocked a thumb.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Particularly impressive were improvements in robotic hands, Sarkar said, wiggling his fingers.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

Another said, “You can’t snap your fingers and get a spouse on demand, sadly.”

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

“In the snap of fingers, my best friend, my confidant, my partner, my soul mate was transitioned to another dimension — a higher plane,” she wrote in her post.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

The better strategy would be to put up four fingers, load the bases and bring Raleigh up to the plate.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The buildings rolled by as I pulled my hair around and combed my fingers through it, wondering at the peculiar little encounter with Russell.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"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

And it fingered Diana Teran, its own constitutional policing advisor, as the source of the leak, even though Teran was the one who’d initially reported it and denied passing along the information.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 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

Nothing to it at all, Shirley thought as she fingered the cellophane and walked proudly out the door.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

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

Tally muttered, fingering the tiny scar on her right palm.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld




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