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Recent Examples of thumbSome guards thumbed their noses at the FAA safety rules that flight attendants were supposed to enforce while airborne, multiple flight attendants recalled.—Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 1 Apr. 2025 What’s worse is, some of the guilty ones thumb their noses at the state and refuse to pay fines, forcing the state to go to court.—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025 Maine high school athlete Cassidy Carlisle expounded on her message to Gov. Janet Mills as the state continued to thumb its nose as President Donald Trump and maintain its transgender-athlete policies in girls' and women’s sports.—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2025 Williams seemed to thumb his nose at the proceedings.—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for thumb
The town of London, 75 miles south of Lexington, was devastated − with entire neighborhoods razed with homes reduced to rubble, downed power lines and cars flipped and strewn onto yards.
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John Bacon,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
The intimacy coordinator would come over with an iPad and flip through new positions.
It is now applied to anyone who has not visited the shower trailer and is desperately trying to bum a cig.
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Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
Grant invites Dina on the one-on-one, leaving the rest of the women feeling like this:
Even though they’re bummed, the women keep their comments positive.
This is because of the increasing demands for networking and switches to connect exponentially larger clusters, from spine to leaf in the front end and back end, rack to rack and accelerator to accelerator.
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Beth Kindig,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.
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Ruth Margalit,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Mar. 2023
Rosemary hitchhiked to the prison wearing a simple crepe and silk shawl to comfort her husband, brushing aside fears about the Zodiac Killer operating in the area.
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Susannah Cahalan,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
The complaint alleges that staff regularly sent students unattended to hitchhike for errands.
Just sandpipers skimming the surf, green sea turtles digging moonlit nests — and, every so often, Richard Gere strolling on the beach.
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Kathryn Romeyn,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
Marketplace websites that act as middlemen for private sales offer some protection for buyers but also skim a fee from each sale, which can inflate prices slightly.
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