FINGERING Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

fingering

verb

present participle of finger

as in identifying

to find out or establish the identity of thus far authorities haven't been able to finger the person who's been lighting fires around town

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Recent Examples of fingering All seems normal with this new potential job until the woman conducting the interview subtly reveals bruises on her arms and, not so subtly, starts fingering her kitchen knives. —

Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2025 Using a fingering yarn when a knitting pattern specifies DK means your garment will end up much too small. —

Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025

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Similarly, corruption or physical damage might destroy a file’s header, which contains its identifying metadata, while leaving other parts of it untouched.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
The company says the federal government is responsible for identifying which carriers are safe and cracking down on those that are not.

— Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026