noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pincer movement
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
movement
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Those at either end of the line usually advance rather faster than those in the centre so that a pincer movement develops.
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They had thus executed a vast pincer movement , and won the first round.
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It is a favourite military tactic ... the pincer movement !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bovis are using a special pincer machine to demolish covered ground level car parks.
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In one later incarnation, she is depicted as severe, with a scalpel and a large pair of pincers.
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Kino seemed to picture a kind of great Catholic pincers to squeeze out the Protestant intrusion.
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Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures.
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Suddenly he grabs her pincers with his.
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They had thus executed a vast pincer movement, and won the first round.
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Those at either end of the line usually advance rather faster than those in the centre so that a pincer movement develops.