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  1. thumbs

    The thumb is the first digit of the hand, next to the index finger. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position (where the palm is facing to the front), the thumb is the outermost digit. The Medical Latin English noun for thumb is pollex (compare hallux for big toe), and the corresponding adjective for thumb is pollical.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thumbs in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thumbs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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  1. Joe Raedle/Getty:

    There will be a couple of what we call fast boats will come up to the capsule at that point and make sure that everything is safe on the outside of the capsule for it to be hoisted on board the recovery ship, at that point, the recovery ship is moving in and in communications with the fast boats ...once everybody gives the thumbs up that we are ready to be hoisted aboard it will get lifted aboard by a crane and cradled on board the aft portion of the ship.

  2. President Barack Obama:

    He insisted that if he wants to come -- and it was a very important meeting -- he needs to be far away enough from the election that it doesn't look like in some ways we're meddling or putting our thumbs on the scale.

  3. Susan Winchester:

    In today’s technological, learn-with-your-thumbs environment, we needed to give the visitors something they could hold and grasp, and it has worked, we’ve had a remarkable uptick in the number of visitors in just the four months since the grand-reopening.

  4. Editor Curtis Houck:

    Between a story about McConnells ancestors, her 11 minutes on Morning Joe... the liberal media have shown on day one of this race that theyll put both thumbs on the scale for McGrath.

  5. Charlie Munger:

    We just sat there sucking our thumbs, we're ashamed.

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