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thumb drive

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noun

  1. a thumb-sized portable computer hard drive and data storage device

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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