clasp
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The tension between Altman and Amodei seemed to surface last week, when they were the only ones who didn’t clasp hands onstage during a group pose at an AI event in India.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
The devices, made by London-based Greyparrot, use artificial intelligence to identify recyclables, flag food-grade material, gauge items’ mass, assess market value and calculate points at which a robotic claw might best clasp each piece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
The best thing to do is to crouch face-down, bend the legs underneath the torso and clasp both hands behind the neck, Nakae said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
But Pegula's clasp of her head after they blew an 8-4 lead in the first-to-10 match tie-break summed up their bitter disappointment at missing a shot for the trophy.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
We clasp each other’s hands one more time.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
Lindo laughs, clasps his hands together and raises them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
“Now I’m 103," sighs Donald Howkins as he clasps his hands and bows his head, “I often wonder why I’ve lived this long and so many of my mates and friends got killed."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
His comedy had choreography, a visual language of pointing, air-sawing and face clasps.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
So, too, did the occasional sheen of gold-metal Chloe belts, golden grape neck clasps, or the occasional giant brown leather handbag almost as big as the model holding it.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Saleem’s wife clasps his hands and pulls him aside.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
The result at Deanna Evans is a series of shrines through which eyes consider us or hands, clasped in prayer or curved in a blessing, beckon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Guarded by elite army commandos, their mascot Aloka -- a stray dog rescued in India -- walked on a leash, drawing bows and clasped hands from devotees lining the route.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Eunhee could hardly get her words out through sobs as her teenage son clasped his hand to his mouth.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Watching the speedskating superstar, Ning clasped his hands in prayer during the final race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
The fingers of one hand were clasped around a finger on her other hand, as if she were missing something there.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
"Then come, oh Spirit, from behind "The curtains of thy radiant home, "If thou wouldst be as angel shrined, "Or loved and claspt as mortal, come!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
She knew me, and acknowledged me her heir, Pray'd me to pay her debts, and keep the Faith: Then claspt the cross, and pass'd away in peace.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
My lord, We have claspt your cause, believing that our brother Had wrong'd you; but this day he proffer'd peace.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
She even claspt my hand in her's, and said, "O Charles! is he very, very miserable?"
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray
"What name?" an he put it i'th' book,— An shoo hardly seemed able to stand; As shoo tottered, he happened to luk saw summat claspt in her hand.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by John Hartley
She’s by his side clasping her hands, wearing a colorful blouse that pales in radiance to Huerta’s hopeful face as she looks at the crowd before them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
On the coastal road at Playa Canizo, a man in a straw hat and sodden fatigues, clasping an equally wet suitcase, thrust out his left arm, hoping for a ride to safety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
“He doesn’t know he was in a movie,” said Leonberg, clasping a happily wriggling Indy, who doesn’t register me on the other end of the Zoom interview.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2025
Raducanu sealed victory with a ripping forehand winner on her second match point, breaking into a beaming smile and clasping the peak of her hat in shock.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
Once clasping the familiar shape of the blowpipe, Ranofer’s hands steadied and so did his nerves.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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