grips

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The world's best struggled to get to grips with the task presented by an undulating course with thick rough and sloping greens.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

She grips her stuffed animals when she’s nervous, which is often.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

Downtown Los Angeles could hit 101 degrees and Glendale may reach 104 degrees on Tuesday as a record-shattering March heat wave grips the region.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

As Evie, the teenage narrator, explains, “at that time in my personal life, I was coming to grips with the end of the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The next morning I hitched up Big Jack to the buggy and took Grandpa and Miss Love and a mountain of grips to the depot.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns