clasp
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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
They all clasp hands, with Ami telling the others, “I love you guys.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
They fit perfectly in the palm of your hand and include a lobster clasp for ease of use.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
I clasp my hands as if this action will hold me together.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
In the video, one of the woman’s young daughters whimpers and the other clasps tightly to her distraught, Mickey ears headband-wearing mother while begging strangers for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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
Some of the A-boards have metal clasps or chains to hold them open, which can cause injuries, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2023
He clasps Peeta’s hand and gives him an approving slap on the shoulder.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Shortly after hearing the sentence, a defiant-looking Guo nodded toward a courtroom packed with his supporters and clasped his hands in a praying motion, as he had done repeatedly during his trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 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
Kin clasped his hands together on the table.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
"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
He looked soe rapt, with claspt hands and upraysed eyes, as that I coulde not but look on him and hear him with solemnitie.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
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
But the youngest Goddess claspt the Ball to her breast.
From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
The child lifted up and claspt its little beseeching hands, and stroakt the pale neck and cheeks of the marble beauty.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
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
The children sat on wooden benches bouncing their legs, clasping their hands and anxiously looking around the brightly lit courtroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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
Smiling, clasping hands, patting one another on the back.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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