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buckle

noun as in fastener with long pin

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verb as in contort, warp

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It’s wearing a tiny pirate’s hat on the top of its head, decorated with a golden buckle.

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Now she tried to stand up, but her legs buckled beneath her, and she nearly fell into the samovar.

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The housekeeper had changed out of her usual buckled shoes and voluminous floral-print dress, and into a pair of sturdy boots and a borrowed shirt and trousers from one of the farmhands.

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Michael slid into the back seat and buckled up without a word.

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Treasurys sparked alarm that the bond market might finally be buckling under the pressure of outsize U.S. borrowing.

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