as in binding
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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But his rival, Cepeda, has urged voters to wait for the final, binding count.
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Regulators should commission an independent validation using their own supervisory data before treating these figures as the basis for binding calibration decisions.
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Morocco lost a pair of 1-0 games before tying Spain but failed to get out of the group stage.
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By late 2024, immigration had become markedly more salient in Irish politics, with anti-immigration candidates gaining traction and political observers tying that shift directly to the riots.
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The decree requires law enforcement to meet specific goals before federal oversight is removed, including changes to the use of force policy, limiting military-style tactics during protests and banning handcuffing children under 14.
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The video then cuts to the produce section of the store, where two officers stand off with the man who authorities say is Tabor, tackling him to the ground and handcuffing him.
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One person was cited on suspicion of unlawfully capturing and confining wildlife.
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Bell reviewed testimony from CDC officials and an outside medical expert concerning Perryman’s challenge to an earlier order confining her to the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
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The sanctions are hampering work on a broad array of investigations at the court.
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Winds of up to 50 mph stoked the flames and severely limited the fire response by hampering boat and aircraft access to the remote island.
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Criminal Minds star Paget Brewster is apologizing after lashing out at a critic.
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Hurricane Fiona pummeled Puerto Rico in September 2022 as a Category 1 storm, lashing once more a power grid that hadn’t been rebuilt from Hurricane Maria.
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“Pinioning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinioning. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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