pushpin
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If you can't get glasses, two pieces of paper and a pushpin might do the trick.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Microbes are supposed to be microscopic, but this one, tentatively dubbed Thiomargarita magnifica, can be 5000 times bigger than many bacterial cells—as long as a pushpin.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2022
Should one poke a hole in the rounder end of the egg with a pushpin?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2017
There are also high-five stickers held up by the same pushpin as my baseball schedule.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
I remember thinking, O.K., it’s going to be that sort of movie: smart and shiny, with wits like pushpins and eyes peeled for every possible gag.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 2019
Instead, she’s just gathering thread for her next loop around the pushpins.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019
Includes a mounting guide and brackets and a metal tin containing 20 steel pushpins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2017
It’s a simple white garment prickling with barbs that turn out to be pushpins, pressed outward from inside the fabric.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2017
Instead of a headboard, a spreadsheet stretched behind her bed, pushpins tracking her best catches.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
