clingy
Example Sentences
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People are getting clingy with their chatbots—and it’s giving friends and family pause.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
"Michelle was on the ward for three days and initially she was very clingy, wouldn't let me go. I didn't know anything about mental health back then, so I just put it down to tiredness."
From BBC • Dec. 26, 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
The costumes are, on the surface, contemporary: We see an Adidas sweatshirt here, a clingy party dress there.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025
For a brief moment, I imagined telling him this was a setup and I'd been forced by my mentally unstable sister and her clingy friend to harass him.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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