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Recent Examples of pinion 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 See All Example Sentences for pinion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinion
Verb
  • Once technology companies weed out junior roles, occupied by Gen Zers, their workforces are bound to rise in age.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike pension funds or institutional investors bound to reporting cycles, family offices can afford to wait.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Through two games, the Ragin’ Cajuns have held opponents to an average of 12 points per game — a mark that’s tied for the best in the Sun Belt.
    Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The other way to address Africa’s borrowing challenges, Loyiso Tyabashe, chief executive of the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation, told Semafor, is tied to execution.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Thomas said her two dogs are sometimes allowed to walk around the yard but are otherwise chained in the back.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In one of the most brutal sequences, Jaén is captured, chained, interrogated, and finally killed by being crushed under a car.
    Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Mission Viejo shackled the Folsom running game, holding the Bulldogs to 24 rushing yards on 32 carries.
    Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Cortlen Henry, shackled and in red jail attire, entered a no-contest plea to accessory after the fact and witness tampering charges before Broward Circuit Court Judge Martin Fein.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Then, there’s the one about the two Asian guys who are harnessed to a chariot and made to pull it along, like horses, with bits in their mouths, while this other Asian guy, holding the reins, lashes them with a whip.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The president has frequently lashed out at celebrities who have spoken out against him, recently including the likes of Taylor Swift, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.
    Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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 11 Sep. 2025.

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