vise
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When she contracted Asian flu, the virus paralyzed her with “a vise cluster of migraines.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
State Legislatures are caught in a legal vise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
It’s no cause for alarm, but it felt as if a vise were being twisted tighter and tighter around my chest.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023
Wall Street dropped after big U.S. companies delivered a mixed set of profit reports and rising Treasury yields tightened the vise further on the stock market.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023
Malcolm counted them out and put the first one in the vise while Mr. Taphouse put a second coat of Danish oil on the finished shutters to keep them safe from the weather.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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