thumbprint
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These versions are also much larger: while an O’Ryan’s potato is about the size of a thumbprint, See’s can stretch up to three inches long.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
In these postwar decades, Cowley’s thumbprint seemed to be on everything.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
“Writing is a way of marking existence. For me to have that as a thumbprint foundation to pretty much everything that I do is like: Before anything else, someone was here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
That thumbprint made at Stalag 8b inspired Jacqueline to search for more answers in a Facebook group for relatives of prisoners of war.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024
The disk had a depression on the middle, like a thumbprint.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
