finger
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The Surge has pulled its giant foam finger saying “DEBATES” out of storage, because friends, it is debate season.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026
In one, she holds up a finger covered in red marker to look like blood, pretending to be a patient who asks how much stitches will cost, and is later shocked by the bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
As if this whole affair weren’t self-satisfied enough, Iñárritu jabs his finger at the audience one last time.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The lawsuit, filed by the Clarkson Law Firm in August, claimed: "Oura rings cannot measure one's sleep or cycles. That's because sleep happens in the brain, not on one's finger."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
‘You see the three bars above the middle finger? Those are lines of power, warding off evil’ She leaned closer.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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It’s the reason so many of us walk to our cars with our keys poking through our fingers, why we tense up when someone walks too closely behind us on a dark street.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
He is also heard saying: "I have got four fingers thankfully."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
But after four seasons of mediocrity and worse, however, she’s learned to keep her fingers crossed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Dickinson imagines pondering a woman’s “workmanship” and remarking “‘This was last Her fingers did’ – / Industrious until –.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
One by one we had to bend, turn around, spread our fingers.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
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
I gave him his box of mementos and watched as he fingered each one: the Wiggle King fishing lure, the silver dollar, the cork, little Eva’s nesting doll, and the skeleton key.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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Other remaining brand-name correspondents, including the ageless Lesley Stahl, for a while were feared to be fingering their rip cords too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
During this Romero was fingering his glass and talking with Brett.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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