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But in hot, drought-stricken mixed forests, bark beetles first land on nearby limber and pinion pines, generating new broods that can attack bristlecones, overwhelming their defense systems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022

Engineering-wise, the Next Gen car includes an independent rear suspension and rack and pinion steering that’s more reactive to slight driver adjustments.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022

There are a few attempts to pinion Vera, but something in the character keeps sliding out and away.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2019

WHY: The steering coupling can strip on the rack and pinion assembly and result in a loss of steering control and crash hazard.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2016

Some eight of those nearby had been jerking their bills, which he had imitated as if the act were catching, and now, with these same eight, he found himself on pinion in the horizontal air.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

They are large, high-value parts with dozens of components, including ring gears and pinions, specifically made for GM’s trucks—and thus not easily substituted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Those presidents by and large left the architectural pinions of the institution intact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2019

“I began to feel an invincible distaste for the same; & a longing to plume my pinions for a flight,” he explained.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019

Creating life from pinions and pivots and tiny screws may be the easy part.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2016

The vault of daybreak filled itself with heralds, and this is what they sang: You turning world, pouring beneath our pinions.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She had her wings pinioned by previous owners, meaning she is unable to fly.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

Controversial newsmakers—Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt among them—had the term pinioned to them like a scarlet letter, stripping away their accomplishments and leaving only scorned husks of their real selves.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025

It was like peering onto another planet, one that was desolate and depleted and doomed, all of it pinioned by a noxious ozone.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022

Sound had arrived in 1927, and, after a couple of awkward years, the film image, at first pinioned by the microphone, broke gloriously free.

From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016

She pointed to the dense thorny branches of a Blood Rose, cut and pinioned into cruel horizontals against the wall, yet still wild and heavy with dark red blooms.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff

A plan called "Sea-sitter" envisioned pinioning minimissiles on a fleet of roving seaplanes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Christopher loved his father, but it felt like being nailed down, pinioning them both to the ground.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Matthias had relieved the sparrow of her brick hobble, pinioning her wings, make the going easier.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Mr Dale promptly flung both arms and legs round his would-be deliverer, clasping Bob like a vice, and pinioning him so completely that he was unable to move hand or foot.

From The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific by C.J. Staniland

But in a moment Lindela's arms were around him, pinioning his to his sides.

From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford