Definition of "pinning" []

• Present participle of pin. (verb)

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• "Conceivably, but I find it hard to follow the conventional market watchers in pinning such a sharp decline on a very slightly higher CPI number than expected."
• "The figures are also hard to work with, pinning is a skill that needs to be mastered …"
• "Alas, the size of that market was too tempting for the short-sighted, and in pinning their success to China they bound themselves to an irrational and inconsistent regime and enslaved their business to the whim of a dictator."