as in to bind
to confine or restrain with or as if with chains
Joan of Arc was pinioned to a stake and burned as a heretic
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Recent Examples of pinion
To be clear, there is no sense that Rondón and Ugás are defending the old guard or suggesting that a docile, starving population pinioned under the grip of a dictatorship is big-picture preferable to a rebellious insurgency.
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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Haas thus theorized that the victim had been pinioned by both heels to the front of the upright beam either with their legs splayed open, frog-like, or with their knees bent and turned to one side.
—Fredrick Kunkle, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
There is only one substantial object in the show, a set of wooden stocks for pinioning the legs of multiple enslaved people.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Haas thus theorized that the victim had been pinioned by both heels to the front of the upright beam either with their legs splayed open, frog-like, or with their knees bent and turned to one side.
—Fredrick Kunkle, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
There is only one substantial object in the show, a set of wooden stocks for pinioning the legs of multiple enslaved people.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
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Whether your child is 4 or 14, they’re bound to enjoy building their own creations from this Lego Brick Box that’s on sale for $18.—
Laura Lu,
Parents,
10 Nov. 2025
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So, pack your hiking boots, your binoculars, and maybe a little extra phone storage for the photos you’re bound to take.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
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Harrison tied the team high with 13 points (50% from the field) in less than 12 minutes of play.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Nov. 2025
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Then the Mitchell game-tying three and Wiggins’ game-winning dunk at the final buzzer happened.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
11 Nov. 2025
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The 2014 report, which included vivid descriptions of unresponsive prisoners after waterboarding and others chained from bars in stress positions for long periods of time, shocked many but did not move Cheney.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
5 Nov. 2025
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This entire swap would have been a disaster of massive proportions had those two not remained chained together.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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Court process begins with hearing Both Mahmoud and Ali were shackled as they were escorted into court Monday, according to CNN reporters who attended the hearing.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Last month, immigration authorities raided a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, detained 300 South Korean workers and showed video of some of them shackled in chains.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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On social media and in public statements, several Republican figures lashed out at the proposal.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 Nov. 2025
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Vargas floated groups of migrants across the informal border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico on a makeshift raft made from wooden boards lashed to fat inner tubes.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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This comes in the wake of millions of apps being dumped from Play Store for not being good enough and an expansion of Google’s Play Integrity API to fetter app behaviors on phones no longer eligible for security updates — Android 12 or older.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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It’s become a common refrain by the government that the president’s executive power cannot be fettered by the courts.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Pinion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinion. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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