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The phrase 'pinch back' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of pruning and gardening, meaning to trim a plant by pinching back its branches to encourage growth. For example, "When pruning the rosebush, be sure to pinch back the longest branches to encourage healthy growth."

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Pinch back tender plants like geraniums regularly to discourage flowering.

So pinch back these shoots to weaken them.

If you like to pinch back, these geraniums could take it every hour on the hour.

And pinch back established summer-blooming perennials like asters and chrysanthemums.

Slightly befuddled by the potential attack, Anderson, a 6-foot-4, 290-pounder with the most mild of manners, promises to, well, pinch back.

The party openly admitted it was running a largely defensive campaign, focusing its attentions on about 30 of its seats that private polling suggested it could hold, and a handful of seats (including Oxford West and Abingdon, Maidstone, Montgomeryshire and Watford) it thought it could "pinch back".

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Optical disks are, at this point in the game, mostly being used to store media and, in a pinch, back-up data.

She groped toward Georgette's chair, and pinched back.

Stanley's chin quivered and he pinched back the tears.

This resulted in Union Rags' knocking into Dullahan, and getting pinched back.

Then she realized: this was a man, face down, helmet straps pinching back his ears.

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