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Meanwhile, Brittany Wicker says yes to Devonta Anderson soon after they begin dating, but when he discovers she said yes to her wedding dress before they met, he finds that scary and clingy.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

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

“She was always a pack dog, and had to be with people, and with Arthur. But she has been so clingy, and gets so upset to be left alone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025

Shanti shook the clingy mud from her hands.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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

Introverts tend to be clingier, says Suki Montgomery Hall, assistant director and psychologist in the Counseling and Wellness Center at Ithaca College.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2011

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