Pin down
Pin down verb - Attach with or as if with a pin.
Both terms in one sentence
- Sherlock is one of those shows that is extremely difficult to pin down into a single genre.
Source: Analysis / Sherlock - Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness: Hard to pin down as their music varies a lot, ranging from a 1 to a soft 9 and changing throughout an album (or a single song in many cases).
Source: Music / Tesseract - While it is impossible to pin down a single cause of depression, there are many diagnosable symptoms that almost entirely stem from widespread changes in brain activity.
Source: Useful Notes / Suicide
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Single and Pin down. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pin_down/single
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Single or Pin down. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/pin_down/single.
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