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Discover LudwigThe word "PIN" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as an abbreviation for "personal identification number" or as a verb, meaning to secure something in place with a sharp object. Example sentence: I need to PIN the invitation to the bulletin board so everyone will know the party details.
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The money is accessed through their mobile phones, with M-Pepea sending a special pin code to be used in cash machines.
He took a drop and then knocked his next shot over the creek and right into the pin.
Leading figures in the no camp found it hard work to pin down Brown on his plans during the campaign.
White threatens to take on b5, winning another pawn and at the same time liberating knight and bishop, so Black's first move looks obvious: 1…b4, exploiting the pin on the long diagonal and threatening to capture on c3.
His tastes are harder to pin down: seemingly willing to turn his hand to whatever his clients desire, he builds folksy cottages in the Chilterns with one hand, while erecting soaring glass totems in China with the other.
I had never been much good at pin the tail on the donkey when a child; now the suppressed laughter of the actors on stage left me in no doubt.
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That's because their pin-up political editor Tom Bradbury has lent it to close pal Prince William so he can edit together all his gap-year videos and DVDs into one very posh home movie.
Alston's pin-point delivery found the head of Grant, who made no mistake.
But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
We took one of the daily 90-minute trips out to a coral reef, and after the skipper moored the hotel catamaran to prepare a delicious barbecue lunch, we snorkelled around in the sparkling pin-clear sea.
But if a growing number of start-ups have their way, such staples could become pin-ups for food of a new provenance, and one that couldn't be further from the organic farms beloved of chefs: the lab.
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