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- noun Plural form of
pin . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pin .
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Examples
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Each of the pins is sold separately, but both have recently been reduced in price.
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To use the gadget, one simply turns the main pins and opens the cover.
Smart Folding Plug Wins 2010 Brit Insurance Design Award | Inhabitat 2010
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Low buns or twists, get some long bobby pins from the dollar store. or braid your hair and wrap it into a bun.
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A Rembrandt beggar in pins, nails, and paper clips
Vik Muniz: Thinking Artist Heather McDougal 2007
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A Rembrandt beggar in pins, nails, and paper clips
Archive 2007-09-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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While our media go all aflutter about people not wearing label pins, prize-winners refusing to thank Jesus, or generals being insulted just because they lied to congress, the American people are hungry to have someone be so 'rude' as to speak the truth about the world we actually live in.
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Jenny Wren club members received pins from the Delineator magazine.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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Matt Hinrichs received a complete set of Peanuts pins from the 1950s as a gift.
Boing Boing 2004
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Even with greens that allowed certain pins to be attacked, the Stadium Course is no pushover.
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However, when the ironworkers extracted the pins from the south side of the boom, it was found that the harness attaching the boom to the helicopter had not been exactly balanced and when the pins were extracted from the south side, the boom lurched and twisted.
The CN Tower 1975
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