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pin down

noun as in nail down

Weak matches

verb as in finger

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Like any true artist, she’s doing something far more difficult to pin down, and therefore, inherently interesting.

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Nor do they seem to have pinned down precisely what’s ailing their defense at the moment.

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Political power still resides, for the moment, with current Taoiseach Micheál Martin, a canny operator whose principles and policies are notoriously difficult to pin down.

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Their reveal was the most surprising because I just couldn’t pin down any semblance of an idea of what they looked like.

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It’s tough to pin down the right answer, but it’s plain to see that a select group of names probably are.

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

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