pinning

verb

present participle of pin
as in tacking

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinning
  1. mounting
  2. hanging
  3. suspending
  4. draping
  5. hooking
  6. dangling
  7. slinging
  8. projecting
Verb
  • There’s no mounting panic, no erotic urgency, and no persuasive reason these two characters must sleep together before sunrise in a New Year’s Eve-like framing.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Trump is also under mounting pressure to end an unpopular war ahead of midterm congressional elections.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of mounting
Verb
  • Xandria offers a healthy reminder—especially for anyone hanging onto jeans that no longer fit.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Glamour, 31 July 2026
  • Caglianone deposited a hanging slider over the right-field wall and gave the Royals an early lead.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
Definition of hanging
Verb
  • The Kennedy Center is temporarily suspending free public tours of the performing arts venue after a volunteer tour guide spoke with the New York Times about President Donald Trump‘s efforts to gut the cultural institution.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
  • Some are as simple as a suspending seat on sturdy legs, while others pack in speaker systems, automatic movements and hanging toys.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
Definition of suspending
Verb
  • Cox then walked into frame wearing a light pink bathrobe before draping her dark hair over Aniston’s head.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
  • Pogačar would later call this the highlight of his Tour de France — better even than his five stage wins — draping himself in the Mexican flag back at his team bus.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of draping
Verb
  • In the 1950s, people were hooking mammoth groupers, marine goliaths that could be six feet in length.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • As the arrows on the chart indicate, the red line (sellers) is hooking down and the green line (buyers) is hooking up.
    — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026
Definition of hooking
Verb
  • Additionally, Chrome, primarily built on C++, often faces dangling memory pointers due to its complex, multi-process design and dynamic memory sharing, increasing the potential for such vulnerabilities.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • If Mitchell’s resolution to his script’s dangling questions feels somewhat rote, a graceful epilogue leaps several decades forward to end matters on an interesting, unexpected note.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026
Definition of dangling
Verb
  • The Inn at Speculator is an institution in town, slinging a wide range of dinner items.
    — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The long-running tradition, which includes barbecue, raffles and games, invites members of the public to hear from a lineup of political speakers slinging zingers at each other.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of slinging
Verb
  • SpaceX went public in June, but has since traded below its IPO price, with S&P projecting negative free cash flow through 2029 and Moody’s flagging Elon Musk’s concentrated voting power as a governance risk.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Before the weekend, Sony had initially been projecting a much less dazzling start of $195 million domestic and $465 million global that would have still put the film among the top 10 all-time debuts.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of projecting
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