grounding

Example Sentences

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Aside from the risk of venturing into the strait at a time of high tension, a disorderly departure from the Gulf also risks causing collisions or grounding, Meade said.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

While religion provides answers, astronomy offers another way to search for them, grounding me like a kind of cosmic anchor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

It was "grounding", she said, "to make that connection to our planetary home".

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

Cannavale is the series’ MVP, grounding Kidman in their scenes and Curtis in theirs, and seeming, more than most of these characters, like a person you might meet in this life we call real.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

The Pacific Ocean was a body of water surrounded on all sides by elephantiasis and other dread diseases to which, if he ever displeased Colonel Cathcart by grounding Yossarian, he might suddenly find himself transferred.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller