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- noun Plural form of
thumbsucker .
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Examples
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It may be wishful thinking from an old magazine hand who has typed his share of multi-thousand-word thumbsuckers and I say that as an admirer of both Clive Thompson and lengthy thumbsuckers, but he sees signs of an appetite for long pieces within the very maelstrom of bits and twits that would seem to be killing it.
Story pick: A growing taste for long form? Steve Hendrix 2011
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I prefer to read your thumbsuckers in google reader ...
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There's plenty to be said on behalf of history's long view, recollection in tranquility, experts, gatekeepers, chinstrokers, thumbsuckers and all the other paraphernalia of old media.
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Big questions-and big questions inspire thumbsuckers.
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Welcome to the post cold war sweepstakes to find the best catchy phrase for a new era We are now experiencing an epidemic of what in my trade are called "thumbsuckers."
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I've written my fair share of thumbsuckers and, with luck, will write many more.
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A trivial swing of a hundred thousand votes in half a dozen states and you'd be writing pretentious thumbsuckers about how cultural issues were losing their ability to attract votes for Republicans.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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A trivial swing of a hundred thousand votes in half a dozen states and you'd be writing pretentious thumbsuckers about how cultural issues were losing their ability to attract votes for Republicans.
A heads up... 2004
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A trivial swing of a hundred thousand votes in half a dozen states and you'd be writing pretentious thumbsuckers about how cultural issues were losing their ability to attract votes for Republicans.
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I can't really imagine what a good essay in this subgenre would look like subgenre defined, I think, as thumbsuckers about How Literary Academia Is These Days.
How to Write a CoHE "First Person" Essay: A Handy Multiple-Choice Guide 2006
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