thumbnail
noun
thumbnails
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pluralof thumbnail.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They even evolved flat thumbnails, a feature primates also developed for handling food.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
“With YouTube, a medium with a screen, you have thumbnails, other options competing for your attention and encouraging you to click away,” Martin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
The literature prize was posthumously given to William Bean, a medical historian who tracked the rate of growth of one of his thumbnails over 35 years and published a number of studies on the subject.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
Months later, scrolling through my pictures, I ran across some thumbnails of uninteresting heaps of meat.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
Turned, too, his jaw to the light of the bulb so she could press out between her thumbnails the hair root caught in a pore the dog.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
