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"ref": "2000, Patricia Fanthorpe, Death: The Final Mystery, page 119",
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"ref": "2001, Teresa DesJardien, The Marriage Masquerade, page 49",
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"(music) To make a mistake in the finger positions when playing an instrument, resulting in a wrong note."
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"ref": "2000, John Christopher Jones, The Internet and Everyone, page 123",
"text": "BUt now, not wanting to drift from my intentions I look to some notes I made yesterday. And I retype that as 'but now' for I don't wish to perpetuate every misfingering.",
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"ref": "2012, Will Self, Great Apes: Reissued, page 236",
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"text": "Each one watched the one at the machine and didn't allow any misfingering. Very quickly they learned the touch method for the middle row.",
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{
"ref": "1990, Michigan Employment Relations Commission, MERC Labor Opinions, page 303",
"text": "The Charging Party contended that the only problem she had concerned misfingering on the first day use of the word processor.",
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{
"ref": "2000, John Christopher Jones, The Internet and Everyone, page 123",
"text": "BUt now, not wanting to drift from my intentions I look to some notes I made yesterday. And I retype that as 'but now' for I don't wish to perpetuate every misfingering.",
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"text": "The causes? Overconfidence? Misfingering? Disbelief that anything serious could happen, by that opponent, so early?",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, Will Self, Great Apes: Reissued, page 236",
"text": "I'm sorry, I misfingered, Dr Bowen shows me simian contact is disturbing to you.",
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"ref": "1907, The British Printer - Volume 20, page 173",
"text": "I was soon able to set sentences of three or four words without a thought of looking at the board, and the habit of reading the matrices as they assembled in the box, which I cultivated, now enables me to “spot\" a transposition, or even a misfinger, or a matrix running in wrong channel, quite easily.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2007, Michael Frayn, Collected Columns, page 46",
"text": "DUKE: Alas! Methinks I have misfinger'd it! FERDINAND: Sire, bend thou down thine aged frame And do thou smartly pluck it up again.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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