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pin

verb as in attach, hold in place

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He recalled the crush being so severe his arms were pinned to his side and he couldn't get his phone out of his pocket to call for help.

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But that wasn’t all — Wen tried a second time to jump the barricades that lined the event’s yellow carpet but was pinned down by security, the BBC said.

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But it’s also doing men no favors to pin the blame for their problems on women.

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Security staff stopped him and this time pinned him down.

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“The state pays to shut us away in medical institutions, but we must fight like hell to live in the community,” the pinned fundraising request noted.

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

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