thumb drive

British

noun

a thumb-sized portable computer hard drive and data storage device

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Example Sentences

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“Was the thumb drive used to avoid public records requests?”

From Los Angeles Times

Coal put in his mother’s thumb drive and one from Ms. Freeman’s desk and started copying files.

From Literature

Then he put in the first thumb drive and started opening files.

From Literature

Dr. Achebe pulled out one thumb drive and put in another.

From Literature

Only then did he provide the code to a safe that held a “hard-wired” crypto wallet stored on a thumb drive, Brownstone told the judge.

From Los Angeles Times

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