gripping

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Two teams fancied to challenge for the title this season produced a gripping day's entertainment as Surrey recovered from their early disarray to be all out for 328 in the last over of the day.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Gladka and the others stood with tears in their eyes, waving their hands and gripping giant Ukrainian flags.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

See: A luxury ‘phobia’ is gripping these consumers.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

A gripping documentary revisits Japan’s combined catastrophe in 2011 of a tsunami and a nuclear crisis—which threatened to become even worse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

A girl playing basketball had jumped for the hoop and stayed caught in the air, fingers still gripping the ball.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi