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I turned my back and the moment I unpinched my nose the blood gushed out like a busted pipe and spattered all down my jeans and over my sneakers.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

It thus follows that the unpinched shoot stood, on Jan. 26th, 56o above the horizon, or 34o from the vertical; and it was thus obviously almost ready to replace the slowly growing, pinched, leading shoot.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

His Normans and Poictevins were over-ripe; he as dry as an unpinched pear.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry