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Oil futures rose 1.3% to $101.39 a barrel in New York after Saudi Arabia shut down a key pipeline and Houthi militants tightened their grip on a strait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

"I know very well it's likely to be extremely close," admitted Camila Salazar Atias, a 54-year-old criminologist whose work focuses on Sweden's organised crime networks and their grip on society.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Even as Tesla continues to promote robotics, AI and autonomy as the future of its business, its grip on the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Thomas and many other squarely blame OpenAI and other tech giants for not getting a grip of their own creations and keeping them properly contained.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Clara remembered the viselike grip she had on his arm.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Fairley has had to come to grips with the new reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

He’s tinkered with different grips for his changeup, a pitch he started deploying more in mid-May.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

The country is in the grips of a humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by the slashing of foreign assistance and the need to integrate millions of Afghans pushed back from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

"It grips my heart and squeezes," wrote the Telegraph's Neil McCormick, external.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

She grips my hand even though I try to pull away.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

A judge has again told the deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial to keep trying to reach a verdict after a dramatic sixth day of deliberations in a case that has gripped America.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Keith Waldrop’s memoir of his family’s 20th-century history is saturated in the religious fervor that gripped his mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The stock has risen 33% from its recent low at the end of July as investors have started taking a second look at the AI bear thesis that has gripped software names.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Leongatha, where Patterson lived, was gripped by shock.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

I gripped the post so tight that my palm squeaked as I circled around.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

His words were oaks in acorns; and his thoughts Were roots that firmly gript the granite truth.

From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various

Well, altogether gript by the being of love.

From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

"We're rael sorry, and we know your heart was gript to him with grapplin's."

From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine

And first gaed by the black black steed, And then gaed by the brown; 205 But fast she gript the milk-white steed, And pu'd the rider down.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

And he came half over the edge, and gript the Diskos by the handle, in an instant.

From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

“The Visit,” set in motion by a gripping premise, slightly overstays its welcome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The trial measured how long it took patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 to open their hand after gripping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Stocks stumbled out of the gate after Labor Day, with a jittery tone gripping markets as the typically weak month of September began in earnest after the holiday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

However, it will not be as extreme as the heat gripping places further south.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

She sits stiffly in the car seat next to me, gripping my hand.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko