grabber
Example Sentences
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Then he secretly purchases a passel of tortoises; constructs a long-handled grabber; leans down from his balcony; extracts Alfie; and, each week, substitutes a slightly heavier impostor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
The headliner grabber was Sam Bankman-Fried and the implosion of his exchange, FTX, but scores of other crypto companies went belly up.
From Slate • May 23, 2025
While some praised the Super Bowl spot as a retro attention grabber, Kennedy family members slammed it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2024
The headline grabber, though, is the production of plutonium cores.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023
And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm long enough to snatch Percy and Annabeth out of Tartarus, then that’s what he would do.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
