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Recent Examples of thumbWhat’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 After which, stop and consider wind and solar not as energy concepts that require federal subsidies, but concepts that should be allowed to compete in marketplaces free of proverbial government thumbs on proverbial scales.—John Tamny, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for thumb
But perhaps the most serious rebuke to the liberal international order has come from inside the democracies, where populist parties have hitched economic grievances, anti-immigrant sentiments, and the loss of faith in their own elites and institutions to an authoritarian domestic turn.
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Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
As flames advanced toward the Tel Aviv-to-Jerusalem highway, many people abandoned their cars and fled on foot or hitched rides with other vehicles heading in the opposite direction.
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Ibrahim Hazboun and Elena Becatoros,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
Its innovative dial was made to flip over so the metal back case would face the sun while on the wrist during a match, so the dial wouldn’t get damaged.
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Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
3 May 2025
Judge joined this exclusive club when the calendar flipped on Thursday.
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.
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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Simon Hill,
Wired News,
22 Apr. 2025
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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