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Dowd acutely understood the experience of bucking expectations and giving the middle finger to anyone who tells you to fall in line.
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025
For a Cubs team trying to build some positive momentum, Monday got off to an inauspicious start when rookie starter Cade Horton departed during the third inning because of a blister on his right middle finger.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Public meetings have in recent years featured shouting matches, handcuffs, threats of censure, the middle finger and at least one racial slur.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Groups of bathers, wrestlers, and ironworkers radiate eroticism, but the couples resort to shibboleths, such as the middle finger extended, during a shoulder touch, in Jacques-Émile Blanche’s portrait of himself and his lover.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 15 July 2025
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025
For a Cubs team trying to build some positive momentum, Monday got off to an inauspicious start when rookie starter Cade Horton departed during the third inning because of a blister on his right middle finger.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Public meetings have in recent years featured shouting matches, handcuffs, threats of censure, the middle finger and at least one racial slur.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Groups of bathers, wrestlers, and ironworkers radiate eroticism, but the couples resort to shibboleths, such as the middle finger extended, during a shoulder touch, in Jacques-Émile Blanche’s portrait of himself and his lover.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 15 July 2025
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“Middle finger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20finger. Accessed 2 Sep. 2025.
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