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- noun Plural form of
clincher .
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Examples
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Make your choice from these five title clinchers and vote at the bottom of the page:
Arsenal FC News Feed 2009
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Moving right along, in a well-organized fashion, I am drawn by the "clinchers" - those lines of copy ending with an exclamation point.
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I quite agree, and I wholeheartedly agree with her when she observes that similar "clinchers" multiply before your eyes when read as a facing-text.
Archive 2008-09-01 Miglior acque 2008
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I quite agree, and I wholeheartedly agree with her when she observes that similar "clinchers" multiply before your eyes when read as a facing-text.
Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Stephen Barney (Norton, 2006) Miglior acque 2008
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And Sam Hall "still stands fast" and he believes that some day he will see John Wagner again for he knows that John Wagner's heart was right and when they do meet again Mr. Hall hopes that it will be in a place where the cuspidors will be so plentiful and so conveniently set about that he will at no time be interrupted in his arguments, for he has thought of a few "clinchers" that he wants to hand out to John Wagner when they meet again.
Samuel Hall, 47 Years a Slave; A Brief Story of His Life Before and After Freedom Came to Him 1912
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Ann, I really enjoyed that excerpt. mood and setting are clinchers for me as a reader.
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These would be a great wheel if you want to try tubeless clinchers for cyclocross.
Interbike Tech Gallery: Hot new wheels from Rolf, Ritchey, and DT Swiss 2010
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Overheating can cause tubular glue to soften to the point of danger, and carbon clinchers to blow tires right off.
VeloNews tech department predictions for the new year: disc brakes and electric shifting everywhere 2011
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There was a time when the Wizards were winning frequently enough, and Gilbert was bombing in last-second clinchers with enough regularity, that the mere appearance of a Steve Buckhantz Dagger!
Steve Buckhantz lets rip with a Dagger Dan Steinberg 2011
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Getting down now to the end, I highly encourage clinchers in every body paragraph.
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