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
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
Some will put their wishes on a wallet card, thumb drive or cellphone — but these are not easily found in an acute emergency.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
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
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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