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Sivakumar spent much of October talking to entrepreneurs to nail down an investment.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s fun to be had in there, and Nintendo has that category nailed down.

From Barron's

In between fits of laughter and finishing each other’s sentences, the members explain that they’d recently come back from a European press tour and only had a week to nail down their tour performance.

From Los Angeles Times

Clarke said he poured over recordings of the trial, listening to them first before he watched the videos, partly as a way to nail down the specificities of Alex’s accent and cadence.

From Los Angeles Times

EU environment ministers will Tuesday make a last-ditch attempt to reassert the bloc's climate ambitions by nailing down key emissions targets in the run-up to the UN's climate summit in Brazil.

From Barron's