thumb drive
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Freddy Escobar stood on the sidewalk outside his former workplace waving a green thumb drive and a stack of papers that he said would clear his name.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
A few days later the newspaper learned from court documents about the thumb drive with an electronic copy of thousands of files taken from its computers.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 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
That new rule followed a penetration of the Defense Department’s most widely-used classified network, in 2008, by a virus loaded onto a thumb drive.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023
When it was time for the festival to begin and I’d given the tech person the thumb drive with our movie and the bonus footage on it, I walked back out to the audience.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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