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Those early emails were about as private as thumbtacking a note to your addressee on the lab bulletin board.
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PCMAG, 25 June 2024
Listen to this article Americans are footing the bill for atrocities
Boston: With a glossy Tiger Beat centerfold of Bibi Netanyahu thumbtacked above a cluster of L.L. Bean glamping bags, this unnamed D.C. townhouse is the bipartisan slumber-party pad of many an elite D.C. warmonger.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2024
Ocean posters and magazine articles featuring the Pisces were thumbtacked to plywood walls.
—Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
And in the end, there’s no writing-workshop epiphany, but rather that thrilling moment when the circles and arrows linking up the photographs thumbtacked to the squad-room wall form a previously unseen web of connection.
—Mark Binelli, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
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PCMAG, 25 June 2024
Listen to this article Americans are footing the bill for atrocities
Boston: With a glossy Tiger Beat centerfold of Bibi Netanyahu thumbtacked above a cluster of L.L. Bean glamping bags, this unnamed D.C. townhouse is the bipartisan slumber-party pad of many an elite D.C. warmonger.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2024
Ocean posters and magazine articles featuring the Pisces were thumbtacked to plywood walls.
—Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
And in the end, there’s no writing-workshop epiphany, but rather that thrilling moment when the circles and arrows linking up the photographs thumbtacked to the squad-room wall form a previously unseen web of connection.
—Mark Binelli, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
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“Thumbtack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thumbtack. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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