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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
For each featured book, there’s a thumbnail portrait of its author, an image of the cover and one or two other intriguing visuals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
I hurt my thumbnail more than I'd hurt Rex Rockster.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
If you’ve spent even a short while scrolling through YouTube looking for investing content, you’ve seen them—video thumbnails with illustrated flames and maybe a downward pointing arrow warning about the end times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
They even evolved flat thumbnails, a feature primates also developed for handling food.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
The literature prize was posthumously given to William Bean, a medical historian who tracked the rate of growth of one of his thumbnails over 35 years and published a number of studies on the subject.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
Months later, scrolling through my pictures, I ran across some thumbnails of uninteresting heaps of meat.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
We hunt fleas and squash them between our thumbnails.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
