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  • verb Present participle of unpin.

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Examples

  • “No such luck,” Cassidy grunted, unpinning an A3 blow-up of Catriona Plunkett from the board and rolling it up.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • I asked, anxiously unpinning my skirts to cover my dusty boots.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • I asked, anxiously unpinning my skirts to cover my dusty boots.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Between these two books, with their rather different views of disaster, one can obtain a surprisingly broad political education into the philosophical unpinning of global corporate capitalism and its perennial alternative, cooperative civic society.

    Dale Pendell: The Disaster Twin-Pak, Plus Zeitoun 2010

  • She began unpinning her big name button then let it clang to the pavement.

    The Big Name Buttons Mandee Wright 2010

  • I sat next to him while unpinning my hair and shaking it loose.

    No Strings Attached Karyn Grice 2010

  • I sat next to him while unpinning my hair and shaking it loose.

    No Strings Attached Karyn Grice 2010

  • I sat next to him while unpinning my hair and shaking it loose.

    No Strings Attached Karyn Grice 2010

  • Do you see how much pinning and unpinning and bagging this makes?

    Set free..... Gumbo Lily 2009

  • Along the meandering course to the Square there must have been a dozen strangers who bestowed me with personal mementoes, unpinning school pins from their vests and swapping sweaty headbands in solidarity.

    Archive 2009-05-17 philip j cunningham 2009

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