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Recent Examples of thumb
Maine high school athlete Cassidy Carlisle expounded on her message to Gov. Janet Mills as the state continued to thumb its nose as President Donald Trump and maintain its transgender-athlete policies in girls' and women’s sports.
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Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2025
Williams seemed to thumb his nose at the proceedings.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
After which, stop and consider wind and solar not as energy concepts that require federal subsidies, but concepts that should be allowed to compete in marketplaces free of proverbial government thumbs on proverbial scales.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Comically massive in scale yet modest in ambition, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie thumbs its nose at our fascination with spectacle.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2025
Williams seemed to thumb his nose at the proceedings.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
After which, stop and consider wind and solar not as energy concepts that require federal subsidies, but concepts that should be allowed to compete in marketplaces free of proverbial government thumbs on proverbial scales.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Comically massive in scale yet modest in ambition, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie thumbs its nose at our fascination with spectacle.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thumb
Verb
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This cowboy is getting hitched and has the hat to match in matrimony.—
Teaghan Skulszki,
Outside Online,
12 Apr. 2025
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Despite his eternal smile suggesting otherwise, this male dugong seemed visibly annoyed by the dozen remoras hitching a free ride on him.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
Verb
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In Quebec, the Liberals are forecast to flip 11 seats from the Bloc Québécois, while the Conservatives are only expected to win one.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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Once finished, flip through the book to see the character move.—
Sherri Gordon, CLC,
Parents,
25 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Fans were still bummed that he was reassigned to minor-league camp.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 Mar. 2025
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For more on Nintendo Switch 2, check out our Switch 2 game wishlist and learn why we’ll be bummed if Switch 2 lacks these features.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
Verb
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This is because of the increasing demands for networking and switches to connect exponentially larger clusters, from spine to leaf in the front end and back end, rack to rack and accelerator to accelerator.—
Beth Kindig,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Mar. 2023
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Rosemary hitchhiked to the prison wearing a simple crepe and silk shawl to comfort her husband, brushing aside fears about the Zodiac Killer operating in the area.—
Susannah Cahalan,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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The complaint alleges that staff regularly sent students unattended to hitchhike for errands.—
Glynis Kazanjian,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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All this is to say that the longest in the world may have actually taken place in the woods, where more skiers than ever are now skimming the backcountry meltwater all spring long—just like the Slush Cup pioneers, Cyril Paris and Cliff White.—
Anna Fiorentino,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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The Carters likewise only skims the surface of Aaron and Nick’s dynamic, as well as Nick’s relationship with the rest of his siblings.—
Rachel Brodsky,
Time,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Thumb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thumb. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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