vise
Example Sentences
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When she contracted Asian flu, the virus paralyzed her with “a vise cluster of migraines.”
From Los Angeles Times
America is caught in a vise—on one side, “America first”; on the other, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her crowd, whose New York breakthrough would strengthen totalitarian temptations.
The risk: “It will further tighten the fiscal vise,” Gourinchas writes.
From Barron's
State Legislatures are caught in a legal vise.
An examination of the tightening vise in which Jews in the Netherlands—whether German-Jewish refugees like the Franks or longtime residents—found themselves is hampered, again, by storytelling problems.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
