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For a woman who Hollywood exiles into the Nevada desert, only for her to build an empire and return to Los Angeles to conquer the industry, besting cancer should be a cinch.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

All in, a bald eagle can cinch down on its prey with a clutch roughly 10 times stronger than the human hand is capable of.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

“They just use it as a mechanism for getting rid of difficult-to-prosecute cases, cases that weren’t a lead-pipe cinch to get a conviction,” said Gary Kleck, professor emeritus of criminology at Florida State University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

Getting around this city is a cinch since Columbia is known for its efficient public transportation options.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025

The line made a scraping sound somewhere deep in my skull and I felt the skin dragging across the bone to cinch together.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

The zipper cinches the insulated hood close to the face, keeping the neck and head cozy in wind.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

But it’s Silvio’s hapless, cause-driven arrogance that cinches this as Sordi’s tour de force, maximizing Risi’s canny trust that a fixed camera on gifted actors will yield plenty of funny, poignant, gritty life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

“It goes over my entire face and cinches up, so just my nostrils are out,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023

That cinches it: Jane is writing the show we know as Jane the Virgin.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2019

Descheeny came down to the hunters who pretended to be adjusting the harnesses and tightening the cinches.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The nostalgic tone of the collection was captured by some attendees who praised the juxtaposition of pieces, resulting in fluid, less cinched silhouettes reminiscent of 1940s Hollywood.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

He got an extra 3% out of Sarnoff in part by blithely insisting that he would still leave for a long-planned vacation, incommunicado, before the deal was cinched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

In the 1940s, the influence of Christian Dior's New Look cinched waists were apparent, then in the 1950s, references to Spanish fashion house Balenciaga's more voluminous style emerged in the Queen's clothes, says de Guitaut.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

The pouch is then filled with batting and stitched and cinched to secure.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

Wiki was dark brown, with her glistening black hair cinched in a stiff ponytail.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Trade tensions between the U.S. and China sent stocks on another roller-coaster ride Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average cinching its biggest intraday comeback since April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

The Cougars compensated for his injury by cinching up their defense, forcing Texas Tech into several shot-clock violations.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

Up in the bucket of the scissor lift, she maneuvered through her huge cat’s cradle, cinching lines and crocheting them with larger stitched panels to create dense splashes of color among the trees.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

You begin by getting dressed, pulling on knickers and a cloth chest protector, navigating various straps and zippers, cinching up a thick jacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

His arms wrapped around her waist, cinching her to him, and she put her hands in his hair, feeling the silken strands between her fingers.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon