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Increasingly, researchers are fingering a cause: chemical messengers that infected people produce called, fittingly, interferons.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 17, 2022

Here I've torn my heart asunder before you, and you seize the opportunity and are fingering the wounds in both halves....

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor