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Recent Examples of pin
Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Horror stories are told about the men who went aggressively for the Sunday back right pin.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Bruce Strom, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
Fisherman is charged with pinning a woman down as the brothers took turns raping her in one of the Miami Beach cases that dates back eight years.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Morant then put the imaginary grenade to his mouth, pretended to pull the pin by biting it, and tossed it.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Horror stories are told about the men who went aggressively for the Sunday back right pin.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
Most residents in the beachfront luxury condominium at Surfside were asleep in their beds when their 12-story residential building shuddered and then collapsed, pinning sleeping residents between the heavy concrete slabs of each floor.
—Bruce Strom, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
Fisherman is charged with pinning a woman down as the brothers took turns raping her in one of the Miami Beach cases that dates back eight years.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pin
Noun
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They’ve been playfully done with conceits like a pommel horse at the end of some beds, table legs wrapped up like vintage tennis racquets, and even wooden climbing racks on the wall.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The American leg includes Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Tampa, Cleveland and Phoenix and will wrap Nov. 21 in Seattle.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Fashion plates are stuck onto the walls, in the same way a modern teenager’s room would have postcards or magazine cutouts tacked up.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
18 Apr. 2025
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From there, the Dodgers just kept coming, with Andy Pages driving two runs home with the bases loaded, Austin Barnes tacking on two more with a double that marked his first hit of the season, and Ohtani collecting another RBI in his second at-bat of the inning with a base hit.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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The show ended in 2022 as Oz mounted a campaign for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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As cost-of-living challenges and job market anxieties mount, Gen Z's consumer values are evolving.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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The police documents note that companies often hook customers into adopting the services through free trial offers, and in some cases the devices are communicating with cell towers even when users decline to subscribe.—
Dell Cameron,
Wired News,
28 Apr. 2025
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Neeley, Matthews and Affleck are joining their fellow influencer moms for even more of the viral drama that hooked viewers in the first installment.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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El Sazon, which will open its fourth location in Eat Street Crossing any day now, celebrated its third anniversary slinging tacos and other Mexican favorites out of a window in that BP with an amazing five courses.—
Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
27 Mar. 2025
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Ultimately, just after 10 a.m. on March 27, 2023, Hale slung two firearms around her neck and shoulders and entered The Convenant School to carry out the shooting.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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This hanging egg chair adds both comfort and style to your space and comes in multiple cushion colors, including green, blue, gray, beige, and cream.—
Rachel Trujillo,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Apr. 2025
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The corpses started appearing in the early 2000s, hanging from overpasses with threats scrawled on their shirts.—
Antón Barba-Kay,
The Atlantic,
26 Apr. 2025
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In response, the Department of Education temporarily suspended IDR processing, which then resumed again a few months later.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Many schools also suspended classes for the day in protest.—
Fayaz Bukhari,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Even if Google can maintain the status quo for the foreseeable future, the company could be headed into Google I/O in late May with a sword of Damocles dangling over its metaphorical head.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
21 Apr. 2025
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The rest of the staircase dangled from the ceiling.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Pin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pin. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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