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pin

verb as in attach, hold in place

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In an intercepted call, Castro and Cano discussed “pinning” the drugs and guns on the suspected informant, but agreed it would only work if the alleged snitch was “already dead.”

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The task was not simple, given the size and weight of the rocks between which the animal had become tightly pinned.

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One passenger was ejected and landed 10 feet away from the chopper, and another was pinned beneath the wreckage, authorities said.

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Even the pin light of a cell phone charger gives us something to orient ourselves against, a way to make sense of where we are.

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PC Borg said the man had spat at officers and urinated on the door of the cell, so officers pinned him down on the floor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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