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[thuhm-nayl] / ˈθʌmˌneɪl /


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The publication of my crime is not what floods me with anxiety: It’s the thumbnail, taken inside Orange County jail after I’d spent close to a month recovering from a collapsed lung in the hospital.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

The thumbnail shows a smiling teen holding oversized shopping bags.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

The devices created in Lozano's lab are about the size of a thumbnail.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

The thumbnail of each video features Muñoz’s ever-emotive face, as well as her signature orange-and-white outfit and large orange head bow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

The Orangedrink Lemondrink Man folded the green sweet wrapper and fixed the fold with his painted thumbnail.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

One can see the TV Guide thumbnails: Woody and Matthew forget to buy Valentine’s Day gifts for their wives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

They even evolved flat thumbnails, a feature primates also developed for handling food.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026

“With YouTube, a medium with a screen, you have thumbnails, other options competing for your attention and encouraging you to click away,” Martin said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Months later, scrolling through my pictures, I ran across some thumbnails of uninteresting heaps of meat.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

“Gonna start working on my comic zine,” he said, holding up a page on which he’d sketched thumbnails of an eight-page comic.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez


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