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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.

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.

Whether it’s a semi-ironic obsession with artisanal cheese-making, a random passion for sitar music or a stubborn preference for a flip phone, there are many wonderful contradictions about humans that algorithms can’t quite pin down.

You could hear a pin drop in the room.”

Grant Price and Russell Enyeart pinned Hastings as a suspect, court documents say.