pushpin
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Simply pierce a hole using the pushpin in one piece of paper.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Microbes are supposed to be microscopic, but this one, tentatively dubbed Thiomargarita magnifica, can be 5000 times bigger than many bacterial cells—as long as a pushpin.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2022
Should one poke a hole in the rounder end of the egg with a pushpin?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2017
I never know when a collar’s gonna fall off, or a pushpin gonna stick me and make me holler out in class.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
The mini boxes are handy for small items like bag clips, paper clips, pushpins, and hair ties.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2021
I remember thinking, O.K., it’s going to be that sort of movie: smart and shiny, with wits like pushpins and eyes peeled for every possible gag.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 2019
Includes a mounting guide and brackets and a metal tin containing 20 steel pushpins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2017
This is most powerfully apparent in a large, square pastel on paper of deep blue dotted with coins, pushpins and layered paraffin: A gorgeous face floats forward as if from a dream.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
I take a couple pushpins out of the jar on Hannah's desk and approach my empty bulletin board.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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