thumb drive
noun
: a small usually rectangular device used for storing and transferring computer data : flash drive
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Instead, consider keeping your private data and files on a storage device that isn't connected to the internet, like a thumb drive or a portable hard drive.
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PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
When Mitch, Al and two other writers at the St. Paul Daily Dispatch are awarded hand-carved and painted little turtles at a ceremony on the reservation, a woman business writer holds up her turtle and announces that a thumb drive in the turtle’s stomach contains explosive information.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
The device, which is about the size of a thumb drive, connects to a smartphone app that shows the location of the device on a map.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
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Stored on a thumb drive, the recording allegedly features Simpson confessing to the twin killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her gentleman friend Ron Goldman.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
When Mitch, Al and two other writers at the St. Paul Daily Dispatch are awarded hand-carved and painted little turtles at a ceremony on the reservation, a woman business writer holds up her turtle and announces that a thumb drive in the turtle’s stomach contains explosive information.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
The device, which is about the size of a thumb drive, connects to a smartphone app that shows the location of the device on a map.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
More news: Trevor Lawrence Breaks Silence After Scary Head Injury in Jaguars' Loss to Texans
Stored on a thumb drive, the recording allegedly features Simpson confessing to the twin killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her gentleman friend Ron Goldman.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Thumb drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thumb%20drive. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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