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Before Brubaker’s next pitch, rookie catcher Daniel Susac held up a single index finger.—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026 Angels rookie right-hander George Klassen (0-1), making his second big league start, left in the third inning because of a bruised nail on his right index finger.—CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026 The most common animal the team found was an organism about the size of a human adult index finger that had a wormlike body and a disk that kept it rooted to the seafloor.—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026 Searching the room for clues, Hole spots a decaying hand arranged on the shelf with the thumb removed and the index finger pointing upwards — to the fifth floor.—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for index finger