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  • Once the rip pin's all done I would guess that this little $179 gadget would just kind of sit there and collect dust.

    Rip your CDs into MP3s — without a PC | Sync Blog 2007

  • He had a safety pin in it, and I was worried (and in puppy love) so I took out my diamond to put in the pin's place.

    Defined By What We Don't Have Anymore 2007

  • The academics explain away all that went wrong, and with a pin's head of evidence they compose volumes with charts and graphs and footnotes and all the other ancillary bullshit required to receive tenure.

    The Howling Days of Madness 2009

  • The lapel pin's gotta go, but we love the bold blue-and gold color combination and big smile!

    Colleen Werthmann: Gravitas-Challenged Pulitzer Prize Winner Hottie Rundown! 2008

  • When I visualize a parade of people marching down the street with upside down lapel pins, I find it hard to imagine people on the sidewalk or more than a couple of feet away would be able to see the pin's orientation -- and if they could see it, they would probably ascribe it to happenstance, coincidence, uneven friction with the moving fabric.

    Inverted Lapel Pins As Distress Signal 2008

  • These teams were able to process application forms, issue bank cards and pin's and activate them in the field, at for example community halls.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • In a pinch, use pliers and tape to turn the pin's wire into an emergency rod guide.

    25 Tips for Tackle 2003

  • Drops a pin's point of time; tick! quoth the clock,

    The Last Man 2002

  • There, two very small bedrooms and an antiquated bathroom opened off a landing that wasn't much larger than a drawing pin's head.

    A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

  • But there was another cluster of the tiny lights, one of them purple, the others white, except for two larger lights, one the size of a pin's head instead of its tip, the other the circumference of the pupil of an eye.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

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