groping

Example Sentences

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Vandier said AI is turning military intelligence analysis from a task of groping in darkness for targets to one of sifting through piles of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Such people are groping for answers and meaning.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

“One leg, two legs — got it,” Dave Laithwaite, a volunteer at the sanctuary, said while groping around in the mud in the kiwi’s narrow den.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

Under Spain’s 2022 sexual consent law, the crime of sexual assault takes in a wide array of crimes from online abuse and groping to rape, each with different possible punishments.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2024

He grew awkwardly into a tall, strange, dreamy boy with fragile eyes and a very delicate mouth whose tentative, groping smile collapsed instantly into hurt disorder at every fresh rebuff.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller