grasp
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Most of all though, I just couldn't quite grasp that there were four human beings strapped into their seats at the top of a 98m-tall rocket on their way to the Moon.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
But bots often fail to grasp basic facts, such as insisting that the ratio 1:100 simplifies to 1:25.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026
What’s much more difficult to grasp, even for those of us now alive, is how we wound up in a world where that might happen.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
The Portuguese, he writes, were by the 17th century the first colonial power to grasp the financial potential in basing industrialized agriculture on mass slavery abetted by the seizure of conquered land.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The fairy queen looked dazed as her hands struggled to free herself from the genie’s grasp, yet she wasn’t putting as much energy into it as she had been.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Vocabulary lists containing grasp
"Mending Wall," by Robert Frost
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Excerpt from "The Diary of Anne Frank"
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