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Navratilova on Thursday posed a question to Democrats as some states have continued to thumb their nose at President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep males out of girls’ and women’s sports.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
While nearly every country has announced retaliatory tariffs, nations, businesses and their citizens are increasingly willing to thumb their noses in ways that go beyond extra costs slapped on at ports, touching all levels of commerce.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2025
Some 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
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
While nearly every country has announced retaliatory tariffs, nations, businesses and their citizens are increasingly willing to thumb their noses in ways that go beyond extra costs slapped on at ports, touching all levels of commerce.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2025
Some 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thumb
Verb
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The company has refined the trailer somewhat in that time, but its main selling points remain the same: the ability to hitch itself to a towing vehicle and set itself up at the campground.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
8 May 2025
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Instead, women’s football has been hitched to the Festival Girl Power Summer brandwagon.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
Verb
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In Nu-Nerd, fashion flips the script of what society deems is cool by embracing the antithesis the high fashion trends.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
30 May 2025
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United Launch Alliance’s years-long delays with its new Vulcan rocket have flipped the script for national security missions, making SpaceX the new reliable provider.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2025
Verb
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Everyone — from those actually paying to the ones still bumming a log-in — wants to know how Netflix and other streaming services’ crackdowns on password sharing affect them.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
20 May 2025
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Fans who hoped to see them on the red carpet at last week’s Met Gala were bummed.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
11 May 2025
Verb
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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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On May 19, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen was hitchhiking on the way from her Eugene, Ore., home to a friend’s birthday party when she was picked up by a couple, Cameron and Janice, who had their baby in the car.—
Makena Gera,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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When Stan Love would take a shower, Mike Love wrote, Mr. Wilson would sometimes sneak out in his robe and hitchhike in search of drugs.—
Jeré Longman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Home care providers can invoke this right to stop union dues skimming.—
Mark Mix,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2025
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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.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Thumb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thumb. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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