grasp

"In a moment like that you don't really grasp what's going on. Later I came to find out that I knew people on that plane. They were buyers of mine."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

He didn’t grasp its weight until a middle school teacher described watching the attacks unfold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

But you don’t have to be a football fanatic to grasp that today, for 12- to 18-year-old boys, this sport has never been more important.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"It's a huge opportunity that we have to grasp... but we've got to do that in a responsible way," Hassabis said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

He saw the pity in Kenny’s eyes and knew the young man thought grief was making him grasp at impossibilities.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Although she grasps the issues that can arise with the product, she says, most of her life is pretty well documented anyway.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

Beijing grasps what many American policymakers miss: Alignment research accelerates AI capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

She also grasps that comedy reigns on the Internet.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025

But already, with this first move, Moscow has shown that it grasps the depth of local frustrations.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

Finnick grasps my hand, to give me an anchor, and I try to hang on.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

On his debut, Samba played the entire 90 minutes and fully grasped his opportunity.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Though not everyone seemed to have grasped the game’s finer points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Unseeded Michelsen came into the match in fine form, having not dropped a set at the tournament prior to facing Tiafoe, and grasped the momentum in the first set.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The road to recovery is long, and some patients "still haven't really grasped the magnitude of what happened to them," Bianca Damaso, a physician specializing in prosthetics, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

He leaned into the boat and grasped the boy under his arms.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

As children, we sense the edges of these silences without fully grasping them.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

The Emmy Award-winning HBO comedy “Hacks” debuted nearly a decade after “Girls,” and it was still centered around a struggling creative grasping for whatever work she could find.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Or "who is your team at the Cup?" without grasping it's the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

One reason for the fascination with Musk’s status as a “trillionaire” may be the very human difficulty of grasping such a big number.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

While he descended the three floors, piece by piece, in clumsy, grasping hand grips, Sheed traversed the debris, nimble as always.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles