thumbtack
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The methyl group acts like a tiny thumbtack set out on the seat the antibiotic was hoping to take, Polikanov said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Broadcaster TVE showed a thumbtack that its reporter on a motorbike found on the course.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
“Honey! Did you see the picture of Angie’s labradoodle?” she might ask as I walked into her small white room to thumbtack another family photo to the otherwise bare walls.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
We motored over to Aaron Island, a small thumbtack of wilderness surrounded by water.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2019
Lexie scanned the living room: only a few throw pillows stacked on the carpet, bare walls now except for some stray thumbtack holes in the plaster.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
BARCELONA, Spain — Andreas Kron of Denmark won a rainy second stage of the Spanish Vuelta that local media reported was marred when several competitors rode over thumbtacks on Sunday.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
These metatheatrical maneuvers at the beginning and end of “Ava” seem as if they were added last minute with thumbtacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
While we are on ravioli, even if they are stuffed with thumbtacks and rusty pennies, they are better than spaghetti.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023
If Run the Jewels are the polemicist poets facing America’s racial reckoning with six-foot-high spray-painted lettering, Clipping’s members are the academics connecting the horrors of the country’s past with thumbtacks and string.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2020
I have thumbtacks to pin my sheets to the walls, creating new walls, and alleys and roofs, so we’re hidden away in a labyrinth.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
