fingering

present participle of finger

Example Sentences

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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
  • ProPublica is not identifying the former station chief or the contractor to protect their safety.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In August, Kelley was arrested and charged with three misdemeanors — one for electronic communications harassment and two for electronic disclosure of personal identifying information — following days of apparent confrontational social media posts allegedly doxxing her friends and family members.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This disruption fueled a crisis in teacher turnover and burnout, with one survey finding that nearly a quarter of all teachers were considering leaving or retiring because of COVID-19 lockdowns.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • What matters is what works for individual couples and finding a balance between together and alone time.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the current threat environment, the offenders are often not distinguishing.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This is not distinguishing Russia.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By pinpointing how visual information flows and is encoded, this work opens the door to AI systems that can present information in ways most likely to be retained.
    Raghu Para, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And over the past nine months, a team of judges has been measuring it, pinpointing the exact location of the wave’s base, then stacking images of Slebir’s crouched pose on top of each other like a totem pole up the face of the wave.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Fingering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fingering. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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