Fingertip Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster

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Noun

In the Amazon Prime Video series The Power, adapted from Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same name, the status of women in society is forever shifted when electricity begins to bloom beneath their fingertips.

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Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE, 13 May 2023

Heyward then built the third dance from pure romance to a fiery frenzy — the fluid guidance of his fingertips suddenly sharpening into mechanistic chops and swipes.

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Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 May 2023

Line the pan with a large sheet of parchment paper, pressing it in with your fingertips, leaving a small amount of overhang.

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Lisa Yockelson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023

Choose from a dozen different shades and blend with your fingertips.

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Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

The sleeves ran past her fingertips, as is Demna’s wont.

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Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023

Hands held high as the ball approached off the fingertips of the UCLA point guard practically a foot shorter.

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Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023

With ingredients like shea butter, hibiscus oil, and micro algae oil, this cream brings a surge of moisture to your fingertips (literally).

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Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023

That book was published in 2019, which means that Crew, born in 2018, has always had the wonder of a garden at his fingertips.

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Terri Robertson, Country Living, 5 Mar. 2023

Adjective

Essentially, our fingertip neurons, in a similar fashion as brain neurons, created a code that conveyed information about an edge’s shape.

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Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2014

In 2020, one worker suffered a fingertip amputation after coming in contact with an unguarded rotary valve and another was hospitalized after being caught in a machine, according to OSHA.

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Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022

When Stapleton made a fingertip grab of a high throw from Fox on the PAT, the score was tied at 27 with 5:45 to play.

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Joe Magill, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022

In the second quarter, Johnson made a fingertip grab of a Sayin bomb, hauling in the ball at the Torrey Pines 23 and keeping his balance before falling into the end zone for a 66-yard completion.

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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022

The company confirmed that one child had already sustained an injury, suffering a fingertip amputation.

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Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Sep. 2022

Swapping gears takes only fingertip flicks of their shifters.

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Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 21 July 2022

The skin printing process is scalable, so the researchers were able to print a fingertip-size patch for a robotic hand and a larger one for a human’s forearm.

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Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 30 June 2022

The Tribune also found that nearly half of the city’s more than 600 public schools have set conditions around modesty that go beyond limiting nudity, such as bans on leggings, spaghetti-strap tops and skirts or dresses shorter than fingertip length.

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Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2022

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