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  • past tense form of grip.
  • past participle of grip.
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gripped







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Many of the beautiful, sometimes ingenious products and technologies developed with the rise of the modern era gripped the popular imagination and made life easier, healthier and more connected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Wall Street has been gripped by the volatile moves in bond yields over the past few weeks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Instead, that was when meme-stock mania briefly gripped the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world and remains gripped by a vast humanitarian crisis.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

She gripped both boys’ hands tightly within her own.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis




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