grips

Example Sentences

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The EU has vowed to ensure Big Tech gets to grips with the many dangers online for children.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

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

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

Because, for veterans of modern warfare, the question isn’t how to come to grips with something that befell us in the manner of a natural disaster.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

The worker uncurls its claw-like fingers, daintily grips the basket by its edges and walks it over to a conveyor that will send it through an industrial washing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

If you push, the other wheel grips, but it is geared so that the axle still turns in the same direction and the weight continues to rise.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton