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pinned

verb

past tense of pin

as in mounted

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Eight quarterbacks in the final rankings of 2025 are currently on the bench or looking for work, so the quality diluted as injuries mounted.

— Jeff Howe, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Annotated divorce papers blown up and mounted, interactive exhibits detailing how your mom’s last round of chemo didn’t take, souvenir T-shirts emblazoned with your best friend’s last words before the car crash.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of mounted

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Two other executives were also suspended for their roles, including team president Lawrence Frank for six months, and Leonard was fined $700,000.

— Matt Schubert, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Warren, who was suspended by DeSantis in 2022 and now serves as the deputy legal director of Democracy Defenders Fund, said there’s no way to know the full extent of the grand jury’s investigation.

— Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

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The American walks into a meeting room in Las Vegas’ New York-New York hotel, dressed in bold pink tracksuit bottoms, with the WBC welterweight title belt draped over his shoulder, talking as fast as his fists fly.

— Chris McKenna, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
However, my hands-down favorite was the new Apple Watch Hermès Series 12 (starting at $1,399), draped in radiant gold titanium.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of draped

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Nearby, a 9-year-old washed his face discreetly in the bushes with a bottle of water, a bright orange backpack slung over his shoulder.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026
Proportion play is also part of the equation, as Gap experiments with Mini sizes meant to be clutched in the palm of your hand or slung over your torso.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of slung

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Now Arkansas will have to keep up with a Utah squad that hung 66 points and 633 yards in its own season-opening win over an FCS opponent.

— Justin Williams, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Images of the smoldering rubble, of Manhattan streets blanketed in ash and the sheets of paper that remained of so many working lives, of American flags hung from windows and car antennas, continued to fill our screens.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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Footage published on Citizen showed what appeared to be a body covered by a white cloth lying by the lake near some yellow caution tape strung between a railing and a palm tree.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
In fact, Jaissle, with his emotional touchline demeanour and obsessive tactical demands, comes across more as a highly-strung indie-rock songwriter/front man.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of strung

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