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synonyms for grasping
- extorting
- mean
- penny-pinching
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- close-fisted
- covetous
- desirous
- extortionate
- grabby
- itchy
- miserly
- penurious
- prehensile
- rapacious
- selfish
- stingy
- tightfisted
- usurious
- venal
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Lentink and the team went through many iterations of the robot legs in order to get the grasping effect onto surfaces like tree branches just right.
This bird-legged quadcopter can easily perch in the treetops | Margo Milanowski | December 1, 2021 | Popular-SciencePerhaps, he ponders, that’s why he wound up studying robotic grasping.
House progressives are right to protect the American people from Manchin’s hyper-partisan grasping, even if that means slamming the door on Manchin’s emaciated shadow of a spending package.
Joe Manchin Hates Spending More Than He Loves Children | Max Burns | October 18, 2021 | The Daily Beast
Rounded ones, for example, can be hard for those with arthritis to grasp—and not everyone has hands with which to do the grasping.
Designing spaces with marginalized people in mind makes them better for everyone | Eleanor Cummins | March 2, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe newborn box, for example, focuses on high contrast items and things that’ll make tummy time a little more fun, whereas later boxes bring in toys that help with finer motor skills like stacking and grasping.
Gift Guide: Last-minute subscriptions to keep the gifts going all year | Greg Kumparak | December 23, 2020 | TechCrunchBut there is a big twist in this story that has left both Grace Castro and Lozoya frustrated and grasping for more answers.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro | Bill Conroy | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTYet financialism can leave voters feeling queasy, and candidates grasping for answers.
Bush, Christie, Romney: Who’ll Be the GOP Class Warrior? | Lloyd Green | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us.
‘black-ish’ Keeps It Real about the Invisible Black Man | Judnick Mayard | September 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter a first go through, they appear to be grasping for what to do next.
Westgate's Chilling Security Video Reveals Shopping Mall Bloodbath | Nina Strochlic | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd that is the key to grasping how we Americans can and cannot take him seriously as a would-be political messiah.
She sat for a few minutes, looking abstractedly down, grasping the letter she had received.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterDuring this conversation Harry's right hand was resting beneath his jacket, grasping the butt of his revolver.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnIt showed Black Hood's gauntlet covered right hand grasping the knife that was plunged into Joseph's throat.
"And thou hast saved our lives my brave lass," cried Rushmere, grasping her cold hand, which he was chafing in his own.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieThey demanded money, and were as grasping and cunning in their dealings as the most civilized Europeans.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer
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