latch on

Example Sentences

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For Musk, that means latching on to one or two existential issues and riding them week after week.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Home shoppers in search of value and views latched on to the scenic state, fueled by a remote-work revolution that decoupled high-paying salaries from coastal urban hubs.” she says.

From MarketWatch

I nodded numbly at the deluge of instructions, latching on to do what she does.

From Literature

By selling to China the vehicles, factories and infrastructure that the Asian giant needed to supply the world with cheap consumer goods, Germany could latch on to the the country’s supercharged growth.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Citrini’s scenario is just one of a number of plausible ones, though in the current mood, the market latched on.

From Barron's