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thumbprint
[ thuhm-print ]
thumbprint
/ ˈθʌmˌprɪnt /
noun
- See fingerprintan impression of the upper part of the thumb, used esp for identification purposes See fingerprint
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Origin of thumbprint1
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Example Sentences
The picture, which looks like a kind of “cosmic thumbprint,” came from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s newest flagship observatory.
Neither of them, not even everyone’s favorite almost-star Greer, makes the barest bloody thumbprint of an impression.
They made us sign and place our right thumbprint on that document.
When I left the Postal Service, I came to Congress and have had responsibility for eight years of the operations of the Postal Service and had my thumbprint on what’s going on.
Bake for 5 minutes, then remove from the oven and create a thumbprint in each cookie.
For instance, a valid ID and a captured thumbprint are required to carry out a transaction on an ecoATM.
Kindly include your full name, as well as your daughter's, and place your thumbprint on the opposite side of the disk.
He ran a red-tinted, celluloid rectangle through a stamping machine and Hunter pressed his thumbprint upon the signature square.
I never could read His handwriting except His criminal thumbprint on the haddock.
The thumbprint which we puzzled our heads over was a toe-print!
Let her have it; be sure to get her thumbprint, though, and send it up here for comparison.
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