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: any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam
2
: something likened to a vise
economic vise of slow growth and rampant price increases—
David Milne
David Milne
vised; vising
: to hold, force, or squeeze with or as if with a vise
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Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
Social Security and Medicare are rapidly headed for insolvency and already hold the rest of the federal budget in a tightening vise.
—Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
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Noun
In such a vise, translators go to great lengths to sound different from other translators, resulting quite possibly in not sounding like the elusive Kafka at all.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
Social Security and Medicare are rapidly headed for insolvency and already hold the rest of the federal budget in a tightening vise.
—Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Verb
McDonald’s left leg was vised between two plates of armored steel.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
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“Vise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vise. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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