vise
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But the characters unfold before us in their exchanges, and the play makes room for the actors to inhabit the complexities and contradictions of lives caught in the vise of history.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
State Legislatures are caught in a legal vise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
It’s no cause for alarm, but it felt as if a vise were being twisted tighter and tighter around my chest.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023
Wall Street dropped after big U.S. companies delivered a mixed set of profit reports and rising Treasury yields tightened the vise further on the stock market.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023
The two cohorts crushed them like a vise.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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The Bridge Home
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