pin (down)

verb

Definition of pin (down)next
as in to select

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pin (down)
  1. select
  2. choose
  3. adopt
  4. specify
  5. prefer
  6. determine
  7. establish
  8. assign
Verb
  • Then the youngest member of Team USA, Rivera was not selected to contribute counting performances in the 2024 Olympic team final.
    — Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The latter curated the event, hand-selecting performers and often songs, also playing keyboards throughout the night.
    — Katherine Turman, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of select
Verb
  • Six players choose Izzy as the impostor, and not for the last time in this episode.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Eaton advises checking local facilities for specific costs and remembering that those costs do not include in-vitro fertilization treatment if the patient later chooses to use the eggs.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of choose
Verb
  • About one third of its customers had adopted that safeguard, which will now become mandatory by year’s end.
    — Soo Youn, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The pair — who adopted children Bella, 33, and Connor, 31 — originally met on the set of the 1990 film Days of Thunder.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of adopt
Verb
  • Today, to qualify for a CEP grant, hopefuls must show popular support by raising a sum specified for their office in contributions between $5 and $340 and a number of donors must be future constituents.
    — Elona Vaisnys, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The façade was lighted from below by the exterior lights that specified the building, separated it from the other night buildings.
    — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of specify
Verb
  • Farther west, an initial route preferred by SDG&E would see the transmission line cross into portions of Riverside County and Temecula.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The options for the gender that the respondent currently identifies with that differs from that registered at birth are man, woman, nonbinary, prefer not to answer or another term that the respondent can provide.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of prefer
Verb
  • Currently, each state has the power to determine its own rules, with many states opting to return a portion of the interest generated back to homeowners.
    — P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Mosser has not come to the negotiating table just yet, but Richardson says his office is determined to fix a wrong.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of determine
Verb
  • The company has partnered with a fund manager licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to establish the Silver Media Fund, an institutional-grade media investment vehicle focused on developing and financing scalable IP.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026
  • VinSpace is part of Vietnam’s Vingroup conglomerate and was established in November 2025.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of establish
Verb
  • Those who’ve reported to ICE offices after receiving the notices have been outfitted with ankle monitors that allow authorities to track their location, Dorsainvil says, and many have been assigned court dates in about a month.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In one case, several systems worked on a problem in parallel, one cheated outright, and the system assigned to summarize their work did not flag it.
    — Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of assign
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“Pin (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pin%20%28down%29. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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