thumb drive
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Six of her fellow jurors said she brought in a thumb drive containing a slideshow presentation she created at home using AI, which they said appeared to violate the judge’s instructions against outside research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
This entertaining anthology compiles 10 creepypasta fictions from eight directors folded into a framing device about a man who finds a mysterious thumb drive in a house of horrors.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Third, public reporting shows that in March 2019, a Chinese national named Yujing Zhang was arrested at Mar-a-Lago, carrying four cellphones and a computer thumb drive with computer malware on it.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2023
Justice said three troopers eventually found a thumb drive “and from that they found the video.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
Fred enters the room and holds up a small thumb drive.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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