pincer
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Under the tutelage of Jason Taylor—a Hall-of-Fame QB hunter in the NFL—Bain and Mesidor form a pincer movement to attack passers from each edge of the defensive line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
It was enormous and looked like the bottom half of a lobster’s pincer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
This new wave of Chinese migrants – many of them still awaiting asylum – now feel themselves caught in a pincer: mistrusted by Americans, unwanted by Beijing, and sometimes suspended in legal limbo.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
I think you are trapped in this pincer of worrying deeply about the integrity of the court and also, at the same time, critiquing it.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024
It was an army of wind-up creepy-crawlies: bronze-gear bodies, spindly legs, little pincer mouths, all scuttling toward us in a wave of clacking, whirring metal.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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