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It can be used as a verb to mean 'to settle or conclude something, typically a bargain or agreement' (Oxford English Dictionary). For example, you could say 'The deal was clinched after a long negotiation'.
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Since his pilgrimage, Pochettino's side are unbeaten, have clinched seven points and back-to-back home victories.
"A couple of weeks ago my team Greenock Morton clinched the SPFL League One title despite losing 11 out of 36 games," wrote happy Alan Hay last week.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Sunday, he said he expected a "a technical solution" to be clinched "in a few days".
Caley Thistle clinched a 3-2 win at Hampden and a place in the 30 May final with Falkirk but only after the referee, Steven McLean, and his officials missed a clear handball by Josh Meekings a yard off his own goalline as Leigh Griffiths looked to head home.
Ferguson's diving header stunned both the players and crowd, and although the Borowska would hit a post late on, Redford clinched the famous win, his last-minute goal meaning that two ex-Rangers men had helped knock out a team that had beaten their former employers in a bruising third-round match.
And although it would be an insensitive soul who would deny Justin Leonard his expression of joy as he sank the putt that clinched the match, the charge across the green, not just of US golfers but assorted wives, some of them across the line of Olazábal's putt, was an insult.
Australia's Steven Bowditch clinched his second US PGA Tour victory, emphatically winning the prestigious Byron Nelson Championship by four strokes.
The 16-year-old took the women's T13 100m title in 13.58sec as Britain clinched another five medals on day two in Wales.
Aulas, however, is determined to keep hold of his star turn and revealed he has had no contact with PSG, who have clinched the Ligue 1 title this season with Lyon in second, about Lacazette, whose contract expires in the summer of 2018.
João Teixeira and Iñigo Calderón each scored twice as his side clinched their second win in their past eight home league games.
The Norway midfielder clinched the points with a 80th minute penalty after the wide-man James Forrest had finished off a well-worked Hoops move from close range to open the scoring.
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