the_post_thumbnail function echoes the result and does not return anything.
If you want to concatenate it this way, you should use wp_get_attachment_image instead.
$list .= '<div>'. wp_get_attachment_image( get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'post-thumbnail' ) . '</div>';
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