fingering

present participle of finger

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Recent Examples of fingering 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fingering
Verb
  • Mokyr took half the award, for identifying the mechanism, while Aghion and Howitt shared the other half, for creating the mathematical model for how products enter the market and drive older ones out.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Investigators leading vaccine and pharmaceutical trials for type 1 diabetes are also using genetic tests to maximize efficiency and funding by identifying participants who are most likely at risk for the disease.
    Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Partner can double with hearts, thus finding an eight-card fit whenever possible.
    Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
  • So many of McAnally’s song ideas have been mined from his knack for finding stories in everyday life.
    Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • What, if any, are its distinguishing marks?
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And investors have a hard time in the middle of this excitement, distinguishing between the good ideas and the bad ideas.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One of the newest applications for the technology is pinpointing hard-to-detect breast cancer.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Many of these landslides are caused by earthquakes, making turbidite layers a useful proxy for pinpointing past seismic events.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Fingering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fingering. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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