grounding
Example Sentences
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The author says he loves animals because caring for them is "grounding".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
But a pro-human worldview—the philosophical grounding to aim those opportunities at the moral end of human flourishing—won’t emerge spontaneously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Life ground to a halt for two days, paralysing banks, grounding planes and causing chaos at hospitals, before communications were restored.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Fortuitously, I was there to meet with multidisciplinary artist Stephanie Shih, whose photo-based compositions have the opposite effect, grounding the viewer in their personhood and experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
