Example Sentences

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Companies increasingly have been pinning mass layoffs on the use of artificial intelligence, just as many AI skeptics feared.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

People have been pinning their hopes and disappointments on celebrities since cinema’s Golden Age.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2024

Investors have been pinning hopes on the new Alzheimer's disease drug as Biogen faces multiple setbacks including competition for blockbuster drug Tecfidera and a failed launch of Aduhelm, its earlier Alzheimer's drug.

From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2022

"It failed to do so, of course – but we have been pinning the same hope on other new technologies ever since."

From The Guardian • Nov. 28, 2010

She might even have been pinning the olive leaf into her dress.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice