clingy

People are getting clingy with their chatbots—and it’s giving friends and family pause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

"Michelle was on the ward for three days and initially she was very clingy, wouldn't let me go. I didn't know anything about mental health back then, so I just put it down to tiredness."

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

In the middle are two young society beauties wearing the new clingy fashions with uncaricatured style, but amongst the mixed-sex groups that mill around them are gratuitously padded older women.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

The costumes are, on the surface, contemporary: We see an Adidas sweatshirt here, a clingy party dress there.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025

“It means, I never made any promises to Audrey. She got clingy and possessive.”

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

Forged in supernovae, magnetars are imbued with magnetic fields a trillion times clingier than refrigerator magnets, strong enough to split x-ray photons and stretch normal atoms into oblong shapes.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 8, 2021

Back in Silver Spring, Yamel Alcantara’s 2-year-old has become clingier than usual, asking to be carried most of the time.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2020

Later on, Rebecca revealed that while she and Alex are also pet parents to two sister cats, Ziggy is “by far the clingier of the two.”

From Fox News ● Mar. 4, 2020

Cats are clingier to their human owners than their reputation would suggest.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2019

Also, most New York snow comes in warmer conditions and mixed with sleet or rain, which makes it wetter and clingier.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2010

Saltwater mussels are some of the worlds clingiest creatures, able to stay stuck to slippery rocks while being thrashed by pounding surf.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2017

Irving has an ever-expanding repertoire that can embarrass the clingiest perimeter defenders.

From Washington Times ● May 31, 2017