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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.
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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
Comically massive in scale yet modest in ambition, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie thumbs its nose at our fascination with spectacle.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
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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
Comically massive in scale yet modest in ambition, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie thumbs its nose at our fascination with spectacle.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thumb
Verb
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They got hitched in 2017 but Cardi filed for divorce in 2024 for the second time.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
2 Apr. 2025
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Resume details aside, while one hates to hitch an actress’s castability to something as random and mutable as her appearance, Pidgeon also has exactly the pensive, porcelain-skinned, vaguely patrician beauty necessary to make a credible CBK.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2025
Verb
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About a dozen House conservatives ultimately flipped their opposition after receiving assurances from leaders that the Senate would pursue $1.5 trillion in savings, at a minimum.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2025
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Two of those districts -- Pennsylvania's 8th, represented by Rep. Robert Bresnahan, and Colorado's 8th, represented by Rep. Gabe Evans, were flipped by Republicans in the 2024 election.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Fans were still bummed that he was reassigned to minor-league camp.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 Mar. 2025
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For more on Nintendo Switch 2, check out our Switch 2 game wishlist and learn why we’ll be bummed if Switch 2 lacks these features.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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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.—
Beth Kindig,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Mar. 2023
Verb
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Houseplant pests typically hitchhike a ride into your home.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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The first incident describes an alleged rape in 1971 when the plaintiff, then a 14-year-old student, was sent on a hitchhiking errand by a school dormitory counselor to purchase groceries from a nearby Kosher grocery store, Shapiro’s.—
Glynis Kazanjian,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Enter the hollow-body frog, which will skim over the mats with ease.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2025
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In 2017, a previous version of the car skimmed a cyclist in London, leading to some bad press, so this latest iteration has been programmed not to overtake cyclists, horse riders, or anything slow-moving on the road.—
Carlton Reid,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Thumb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thumb. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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