thumb
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Is there a rule of thumb or a percentage of income at which entertainment spending starts to meaningfully impact long-term goals?
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
Galatasaray midfielder Noa Lang has said his surgery "went well" after he suffered a "serious cut" to his thumb during their 4-0 Champions League defeat at Anfield.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
But "never did we anticipate or expect them, I think, to be able to hold in their brains, which aren't much bigger than your thumb, information over thousands of square miles," he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
As a rule of thumb, each additional $10 increase in a barrel of oil adds about 0.2 percentage point to the Labor Department’s inflation reading, calculates Brusuelas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
That doesn’t make any sense, of course—these are private files of pensioners; two strangers would never be allowed to thumb through them without permission.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
