clingy
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Just two nights earlier, Jimmy Kimmel introduced his own clingy “assistant Natalie,” played by his wife and the show’s executive producer, Molly McNearney.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
The AKC Canine Health Foundation—which partly funded the work—says owners should watch for unusually withdrawn or clingy behavior, staring at walls, confusion in familiar places and restlessness at night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
During Saturday night's live show, Skinner - sporting a clingy, sparkly vest top - hoisted Dowden up so often during their routine, judge Craig Revel Horwood joked it looked more like a weightlifting competition.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025
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
He was nice, but I wasn't attracted to him and found him far too clingy.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
Also, most New York snow comes in warmer conditions and mixed with sleet or rain, which makes it wetter and clingier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2010
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
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