Thesaurus results for PINS (DOWN)

pins (down)

verb

Definition of pins (down)

present tense third-person singular of pin (down)

as in determines

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This information is continuously shared across a command-and-control network that decides whether an engagement is necessary, selects the most suitable interceptor, and determines the optimal launch time.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
To this, Dobos says more information on the molecular size and weight of the structure (which determines the level of skin penetration) is needed.

— Sarah Han, Allure, 6 July 2026

Definition of determines

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This information is continuously shared across a command-and-control network that decides whether an engagement is necessary, selects the most suitable interceptor, and determines the optimal launch time.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
For each match, the model compares the two teams’ FIFA ranking points, converts the rating difference into a win probability, and randomly selects a winner using that probability.

— Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of selects

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Neither government specifies how that logging should work across organizational boundaries, because the infrastructure to do so does not yet exist.

— Teodor Calin, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
They are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which specifies where and how to use them.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 July 2026

Definition of specifies

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Even still, no matter whether a rider chooses to lay their head in a hotel or a tent, anyone who's spent the day enjoying the open road covered by State Farm Insurance will rest far easier that night.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
Whether Weiss chooses to acknowledge the standings or not, the NL East race has become one of baseball's most compelling second-half storylines.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of chooses

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As an organization adopts agentic workflows, this is becoming especially true.

— Greg Pavlik, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
In 1986, Foxx returned to television to headline The Redd Foxx Show, playing Al Hughes, a NYC newsstand owner who adopts a teenage girl (Pamela Adlon), but the series only lasted 13 episodes.

— Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026

Definition of adopts

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Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
An organization that hires for potential and then assigns only narrow, low-risk work has not given potential a chance to prove itself.

— Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of assigns

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New reads abound for your vacation tote throughout the weeks of July, with fiction picks featuring a Carnival cruise casualty, a highly entertaining jewel heist at the Waldorf-Astoria, and a Soviet-era madcap adventure.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
And with all the trades Peterson has pulled off in his tenure at the helm, the Hornets boast a treasure trove of draft picks just over the next five years alone.

— Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026

Definition of picks

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Medicare, the federal insurance program, establishes prices for medical services.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 5 July 2026
The graphic above shows that there is year-to-year variability due to things like El Niño and La Niña, but the overall trend clearly establishes a warming trend.

— Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

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