fingernail
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Ortiz says an Arlington police detective called him and asked what fingernail polish Cynthia had been wearing when she disappeared.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
When used together, these ingredients produced a formula that allowed a smartphone to register a fingernail touch, marking an important early success.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
There were moments of promise, with Dom Young a fingernail from scoring in the corner from a Herbie Farnworth grubber kick and Morgan Knowles knocking on before grounding the ball under the sticks.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
Except for one picked cuticle on a fingernail, which was ever so slightly rimmed with blood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
Chip picked at some grit underneath his fingernail.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
He scraped the bottom of the pool with his fingernails and provided a few treatment tips of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
However, nonconductive materials like fingernails or pencil erasers do not alter the electric field, so the screen does not respond.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
“Keeping the dirt under my fingernails with projects like this, and watching shows as often as I do, you realize how hard and how much creativity and magic there are around shows,” Lovett said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
Last December his daughter, Claire, told the BBC that his teeth were rotting and his fingernails "sometimes fall off".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
My poor fingernails were chewed down to the nub.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
