grasp
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"It feels like I'm living in a movie or a dream; I can't quite grasp it," the 41-year-old lawyer told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
But she has a better grasp of English than she realises and it is clear by the way she talks that her footballing brain is unique.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
He admitted in 2024 that his grasp on the dialect was “horrible.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
We did not fully grasp the seriousness of her physical condition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
I felt it, as if it were hovering just above me but I couldn’t grasp it.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Although she grasps the issues that can arise with the product, she says, most of her life is pretty well documented anyway.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026
Beijing grasps what many American policymakers miss: Alignment research accelerates AI capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
She also grasps that comedy reigns on the Internet.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025
But already, with this first move, Moscow has shown that it grasps the depth of local frustrations.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
It was proud, haughty, impatient with less brilliant minds, grasping in its search for knowledge the way a conqueror grasps for power.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
The road to recovery is long, and some patients "still haven't really grasped the magnitude of what happened to them," Bianca Damaso, a physician specializing in prosthetics, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Even Pochettino said that he realized early on that the team’s culture was worse than he had grasped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Kingsley looks at me, gauging if I’ve grasped the heartbreak of the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
For only the second time, a ban on gnomes has been lifted this year by the Royal Horticultural Society, an opportunity that seemed to have been grasped by gardeners with both tiny ceramic hands.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
As I reached for the edge of the boat, the one called Mike grasped one of my hands.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Now, as growth flatlines, a desperate government is grasping for ideas to get the economy going again, including opening up retail across the whole week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
One reason for the fascination with Musk’s status as a “trillionaire” may be the very human difficulty of grasping such a big number.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
It’s possible to hold on to two truths at once and recognize the distinct unease of such grasping, I told my friend.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
"I'm not sure we are grasping this rare opportunity with the gusto that's needed and I cannot keep waiting around for a crisis to push for faster progress," Phillips said.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
The Muscogees called the squatters a name that, in their language, means “people greedily grasping after the land.”
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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