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cinch

1. verb To definitively resolve something. I think offering him more vacation days could cinch the deal here. We're hoping to cinch this deal and solidify our roster by the end of the week. Now that they've cinched the agreement by signing the contract, there's nothing more I can do.
2. noun A very easy task. Getting here was a cinch because there was no traffic at all. Come on, these chores are a cinch—you can get them done in 10 minutes. I thought I was going to fail the test, but it turned out to be a cinch!
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cinched

(sɪntʃt)
mod. settled; secured; sealed (up). (As one tightens the saddle girth on a horse.) I’ve got it cinched! No sweat!
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IN the Victorian era women wore corsets which accentuated their busts and cinched in their waists.
Each of the two towers is essentially a distorted cylinder; the diameter of the dominant, solid male tower expands as it extends upwards, while its glazed female partner is dramatically cinched at the waist like a melting hour-glass.
You are forgiven, since the news mdeia act as though the Bible and its various believers and interpreters matter only to inhabitants of an insignificant Beltway symbolically cinched around Dayton, Tennessee, where the Scopers trial occurred in 1925.
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This right-brain connection to sign language appears to be cinched during childhood, the scientists argue in an upcoming NATURE NEUROSCIENCE.
For all the heaven of Jimmy Choo shoes, Christian Louboutin gold slouch boots and thick, ankle-length knit cardigans, there's the fabulous thing amiss--a dress weirdly cinched, a skirt too short, a de top scarf.
It fitted like a glove and the pleated detail at the side of the waist cinched in her petite figure while the ruffled skirt elongated her body.
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