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[thuhm-print] / ˈθʌmˌprɪnt /


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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

If this is your era, put a thumbprint on it.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

In these postwar decades, Cowley’s thumbprint seemed to be on everything.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

It will be such its own thing with its own thumbprint on it.

From Seattle Times Feb. 2, 2024

“In this pattern he’s the constant. How does a dead man’s thumbprint keep winding up at crime scenes?”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti




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