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Recent Examples of pin
Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
Share intel on household accounts When a spouse dies, the surviving partner may be faced with a tangle of utility bills, passwords and pins to unravel.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 16 May 2025
Matar was tackled by bystanders and pinned to the stage following the attack.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 May 2025
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Noun
Some of the varying types include ones that open with a combination, key or pin.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
Share intel on household accounts When a spouse dies, the surviving partner may be faced with a tangle of utility bills, passwords and pins to unravel.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Verb
The defense says that no vehicle strike ever occurred and that others killed O’Keefe and conspired to pin it all on Read.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 16 May 2025
Matar was tackled by bystanders and pinned to the stage following the attack.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pin
Noun
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The cover touched the ground on all sides of the furniture to prevent rain and snow from affecting the legs.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
30 May 2025
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Pedri has played in all of Barcelona’s matches in the past six weeks, performing admirably in both legs against Inter.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Verb
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After Brooke Blankenship’s RBI single tacked on one more run in the first, South Carolina star slugger Arianna Rodi delivered a two-run single in the second inning to knock Terry from the circle.—
Alan Cole,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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But by the end, Sirens shifts gears again and descends into bewildering melodrama with a nonsensical final twist that feels tacked on for the sake of having a big final twist.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
22 May 2025
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But even if the numbers ramp up, the program could run into a roadblock created by its own success, as the number of prosecutions mount.—
Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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In the title game, IMG fell behind by as many as 17 points late in the third quarter before mounting a spectacular comeback to win 80-78 in overtime.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
25 May 2025
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Now, Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks was presenting a vision where Buxton could be IndyCar’s lead voice and create a bridge to the horde of new F1 fans in the United States — many of whom were hooked by the same Netflix show that made Buxton so well known here.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Still, that indicates a good amount of interest, and I’m certainly hooked after the first episode.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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He can then be seen stuffing that card into a bag slung over his shoulder before continuing into a stairwell.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
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Try it with a belt slung across the waist or layer with a blazer and loafers for a sophisticated take.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
26 May 2025
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But his presence once again hangs over the latest iteration of Knicks vs. Pacers nonetheless.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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Activists hung a giant transgender pride flag from a famous landmark in Yosemite National Park on Tuesday morning.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
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On May 11, Rollins suspended imports of live cattle, horses and bison across the southern border to combat the spread of screwworm.—
Andrea Hsu,
NPR,
30 May 2025
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However on Thursday, a federal appeals court temporarily suspended the lower court's order, allowing the White House to continue collecting import levies for now.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Over the franchise's 30-year span, Cruise has done everything from dangling from a wire in Mission: Impossible to motorcycling off a cliff in Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.—
Skyler Trepel,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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The sequence, in which Tom Cruise dangles from the ceiling of a stark white vault room to infiltrate the computer system overseen by Saxon’s character, is now the stuff of action-cinema history.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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“Pin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pin. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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