pincer

Last month they seized the village of Prechystivka to the west and Vodyane to the east to complete a pincer movement.

By the time the seasoned fighters got to the plant, Russian troops had nearly closed a wide pincer around it.

By the time the seasoned Ukrainian fighters got there, Russian troops had nearly closed a wide pincer around it.

In recent months, they had been slowly advancing through relentless assaults, in a pincer movement.

The pincer movement of these two policy actions drove the Fed to start losing money in September 2022.