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The robots’ pincer-like hands make it challenging to grasp slippery and heavy ceramics.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

She said the lack of conversation about grief meant it took "a while" to fully grasp what had happened.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

But on the next play, linebacker Nate Landman punched the ball from Cook’s grasp and Aaron Donald recovered the fumble with 7:54 left.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

In a largely friendly 2016 profile in the New Yorker, Tad Friend wrote that “Altman’s great strengths are clarity of thought and an intuitive grasp of complex systems.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

When a gust yanks the handle out of her grasp, she decides to batten down the hatches, latching it behind her and inspecting her surroundings via phone flashlight.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

A poolside interlude channels the tension of distance between two people who were once close: The woman grasps a book but seems primarily absorbed in melancholy; the man broods around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

"Her friends come every few days. No one fully grasps the idea that she is now dead."

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

She also grasps that comedy reigns on the Internet.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025

He grasps my hand in one quick, firm shake.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

The secretary may have gone to Princeton University, but he hasn’t yet grasped the concept of irony.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

One influential figure predicts an array of grim economic consequences, unconvinced that Burnham and his team have grasped what might be coming down the track and planned accordingly.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Though not everyone seemed to have grasped the game’s finer points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Tom gets his travel piece and his tourists, but he also learns that attempting to remain “reasonable” can be its own form of delusion, an indication that you haven’t grasped the gravity of the situation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

From his experience at the Interzonal and the Candidates tournament in 1958–59, both held in Yugoslavia, he’d grasped enough of the language to at least autograph his name in Serbo-Croat.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

As children, we sense the edges of these silences without fully grasping them.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

In fact, it’s so in love with its flawed protagonist that it can’t see he’s the least compelling character in the movie, an ambitious, arrogant, grasping, unscrupulous man we’ve met countless times before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The Emmy Award-winning HBO comedy “Hacks” debuted nearly a decade after “Girls,” and it was still centered around a struggling creative grasping for whatever work she could find.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Brands grasping for attention may also miss a true shift as men go online to learn more about products like cologne than their fathers ever knew, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

She imagined Muskrat finally pulling to the very bottom and grasping that bit of earth in its tiny paws.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich