thumbtack
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First, punch a small hole in the middle of one of the cards using a thumbtack or a pin.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
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
There are nails and thumbtack holes all over the walls where pictures and posters have been removed.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
This summer’s Tour de France was also troubled by thumbtacks tossed on the road.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
It’s as visually pulse-pounding as thumbtacks on a driveway, and an invitation to close one’s eyes and concentrate on the A.S.M.R. pleasure of shuddering steel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
These metatheatrical maneuvers at the beginning and end of “Ava” seem as if they were added last minute with thumbtacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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
The little holes in that wall in the strip mall— maybe a map that plotted points with thumbtacks?
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
