: an instance or gesture of rejection, disapproval, or condemnation
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After the World Series and the Gold Glove, after a trade to New York, a thumbs-down to Mets fans, Báez signed with the Detroit Tigers on a six-year, $140 million deal.—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 14 May 2025 Bakare then went on to gesture thumbs-up or thumbs-down.—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025 According to February Gallup polling, 42 percent of Americans are giving a thumbs-up to Trump’s economic stewardship while 54 percent are giving him a thumbs-down.
Approval of Trump’s handling of the economy also fell to 39 percent from 43 percent in polling released last week by Reuters/Ipsos.—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 1 Mar. 2025 From thumbs-up to thumbs-downs, here’s how critics are reacting.—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024 That drew extended cheers while people in the crowd made thumbs-down gestures to signify McCain’s opposition to the GOP effort to repeal it.—Will Weissert, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024 In late August, Lindor and good friend Javier Baez, whom the Mets acquired weeks earlier from the Chicago Cubs, began flashing a thumbs-down sign upon getting base hits in response to fans who booed the team throughout a disappointing season.—Jerry Beach, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 Is there any gesture in our visual vernacular more visceral than a thumbs-down?—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024 Separately, content pages will now have thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons to help personalize the company’s algorithms to your own taste.—Chris Welch, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2024
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