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pincer movement

/ 藞辫瑟苍蝉蓹 /

noun

  1. a military tactical movement in which two columns of an army follow a curved route towards each other with the aim of isolating and surrounding an enemy Also calledenvelopment
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Last month they seized the village of Prechystivka to the west and Vodyane to the east to complete a pincer movement.

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鈥淚 think the best way of thinking about Heller is it鈥檚 a classic pincer movement, where you have a well-coordinated effort among what I affectionately call the originalism-industrial complex, which includes the Federalist Society and libertarian and right-wing think tanks like Heritage and AEI and Hoover, and then a very popular grassroots movement for gun rights,鈥 Fordham University professor and legal historian Saul Cornell said.

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In recent months, they had been slowly advancing through relentless assaults, in a pincer movement.

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