as in to bind
to confine or restrain with or as if with chains
Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic
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Recent Examples of pinion
To be clear, there is no sense that Rondón and Ugás are defending the old guard or suggesting that a docile, starving population pinioned under the grip of a dictatorship is big-picture preferable to a rebellious insurgency.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
Haas thus theorized that the victim had been pinioned by both heels to the front of the upright beam either with their legs splayed open, frog-like, or with their knees bent and turned to one side.
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Fredrick Kunkle,
Anchorage Daily News,
8 Apr. 2023
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
Haas thus theorized that the victim had been pinioned by both heels to the front of the upright beam either with their legs splayed open, frog-like, or with their knees bent and turned to one side.
—
Fredrick Kunkle,
Anchorage Daily News,
8 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinion
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Its binding values of labor and community remain relevant, even if today’s Hollywood rarely speaks to them.
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Against a multi-million-dollar realization gap that compounds across years, the investment in capability is rarely the binding constraint.
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Acuff hit one of two free throws to tie the game with 38 seconds remaining.
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Gomez's glam team tied the look together with a sleek bun, pink lipstick, and smoky eye makeup.
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Denver's Centennial Gardens abruptly closed over a year ago, and the gates have been chained ever since, leaving residents with questions like why and what's next.
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However, HubSpot Marketing Hub protects its system performance by enforcing a strict 100-action limit per workflow, which required me to chain multiple workflows together for highly complex setups.
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Zico played some good passes, but he was also shackled well by Italy’s legendary man-marker Claudio Gentile.
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In 2019, David and Louise Turpin pleaded guilty to torture and years of abuse that included shackling some of their 13 children at their home in California, starving them and providing only a minimal education.
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Ukrainian officials have warned residents to guard against further strikes as Russia lashes out.
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Many on the right lashed out at conservative justices who joined the majority decision.
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While some players were able to weather that storm – defenseman Joel Edmundson played all 82 games for the first time in a career often fettered by injuries – others paid a price.
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This comes in the wake of millions of apps being dumped from Play Store for not being good enough and an expansion of Google’s Play Integrity API to fetter app behaviors on phones no longer eligible for security updates — Android 12 or older.
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“Pinion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinion. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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