Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pins (down)
Verb
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The most important factor that determines whether a residential building will be built is the ability to access capital.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
5 Nov. 2025 -
The student is an English language learner who has received services for less than two years, and a group of the student’s school educators determines that promotion is appropriate.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Shrine Bowl selects roughly 100 of the top college football players from across the nation and almost all of them are either drafted, signed after the draft or attend a rookie mini camp.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
8 Nov. 2025
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The program selects project ideas that showcase the cinematic medium as a tool for social change.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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The bill also specifies that if an AI causes harm, the human owners or developers would be responsible.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The dress code also specifies the type of shoes to be worn and forbids facial tattoos or more than one facial piercing.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Sep. 2025
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Jens generally chooses his words carefully, and is, what’s more, particularly reticent just after finishing a long and difficult winter delivery trip; what’s a person supposed to do with words in a blizzard anyway, up on a stormy heath and all directions lost?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Instead of letting that hold her back, Valancy chooses to be open about her feelings instead.—
Sophie Caldwell,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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But her fourth album, Lux, adopts the sound and ambitions of a classical oratorio to mirror the modern quest for salvation, in all its thrilling and frustrating contours.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Nov. 2025
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This week the New York Times posited that perhaps a dada-esque absurdity is the point, that youth culture, in an active quest to bewilder adults, adopts nonsensical humor in an effort towards subterfuge.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
11 Nov. 2025
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The Ratings Board watches every movie in its entirety and assigns it a rating and descriptor that aligns with the views of the majority of American parents.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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For a simulation game, their teacher assigns Annabelle and Morgan to lead two different groups.—
Kaleb Demerew,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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That was true when there were committee picks figuring into the mix, and true since those were done away with.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
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Shop picks from Kelly Clarkson, Martha Stewart, Joanna Gaines’ home lines, and more while prices start just $15.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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Another provision establishes an access ban for minors.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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The endowment establishes the Kevin Feige Division of Film & Television Production and will be a source of funding for faculty, students with additional programmatic support.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Pins (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pins%20%28down%29. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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