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has fingered

  • present perfect of finger (3rd person singular).

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Speculation has fingered everyone from political insiders to drug traffickers as the ones behind Colosio’s assassination, which contributed to a sense of upheaval in Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

Cantor and other scientists are convinced the team has fingered the long-sought human counterparts to the rodent immune regulators.

From Science Magazine Mar. 8, 2022

Instead, a non-profit research lab has fingered government hackers in a much-less-technically advanced nation — Ethi­o­pia — as the likely culprits, saying they apparently bought commercial spyware, essentially off the shelf.

From Washington Post Feb. 12, 2014

Yet, somehow, though Author Calisher has fingered her characters, she has not felt them, and does not make a reader feel them.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is always keen for an advance; so soon as he has fingered it he disappears.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis