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finger

[fing-ger] / ˈfɪŋ gər /






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Participants therefore had to recognize that the associations had changed, learn the new ones, and respond with the correct button using the appropriate hand and finger.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

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

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

A smart ring, worn on the finger of the athletes, assists in monitoring their data away from the track.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

In the 1960s, he lost a finger in a workplace accident.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Ma didn’t answer except to flit her finger at me to go, then glance nervously back into the store.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

He taped the unfeeling fingers to the functioning ones so that he could grip a baseball, then, resembling “a little boy throwing against the steps of his back porch,” threw against a wall.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 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

I go for his face next, but he intercepts my hand, and then his fingers rotate until they’re intertwined with mine.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

"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

Speculation has fingered everyone from political insiders to drug traffickers as the ones behind Colosio’s assassination, which contributed to a sense of upheaval in Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

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 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

He fingered the needle-sharp point of the stone he held.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

For more than a decade, scientists have debated which animals alive today hail from that earliest sister, fingering two phyla as the most likely candidates: sponges and comb jellies.

From Science Magazine May 17, 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

Mong looked at me, fingering his brown tooth necklace.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña




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