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clamber

[klam-ber, klam-er] / ˈklæm bər, ˈklæm ər /
VERB
mount
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As long as fans still hunger to see their favorite artists live, it seems likely that singers will keep trying to clamber back onto stage.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

The roar of engines fills the night air in China's Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Those lucky enough to snap out of psychosis and regain touch with the tangible world are now building support groups online to help others clamber out.

From Slate Feb. 2, 2026

At least they did once the water had receded sufficiently for them to climb down from trees and clamber off their cars and try to re-orientate themselves.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2024

I clamber up the stairs to get my doggie dish.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

She dashes up the aisle or clambers over seats to meet people where they’re at.

From Seattle Times Dec. 26, 2023

Nyayien Yow, a widowed mother of five, scrapes together a living by paddling out into the floodwater by canoe, where she clambers up semi-submerged trees to collect firewood for sale in a local market.

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2023

In a separate clip, also filmed from the crush of the crowd of several hundred people, a woman clambers over the wall.

From Reuters Aug. 19, 2021

Amid a torrential downpour, a broken man clambers up a slope and finds himself face to face with a large, growling dog.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2020

The Turk holding the rope clambers into the boat.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Army personnel lowered themselves from the helicopter and clambered up a muddy slope to pull out people covered in mud.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Several members equipped with climbing harnesses clambered up a small tree on the school’s front lawn and dangled from its limbs on climbing ropes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

CHORNOBYL, Ukraine—When Ukrainian emergency workers clambered onto a damaged structure above Reactor No. 4 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, there were eerie echoes of 1986.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

"It would have been directed to their known position and they would have just clambered on board, just like would to get on a boat at sea."

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

Christopher clambered into the Ever Onward, his heart racing.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

There, I joined a dozen young locals clambering aboard a rustic barge.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

It was August 2013, and we were clambering up the majestic and regal unrealness that is Mt.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

After clambering up three flights of a dark apartment-building stairwell, I entered Higatei, which celebrates all things awamori, an Okinawan rice-based spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

"I feel good; a little nervous, but I think it'll be fine. We'll hold on and give it everything!" said Nina Beeler, before clambering on board Cobra, an eight-year-old Swiss Brown cow.

From Barron's Oct. 20, 2025

Then, with stunning realization clambering across her face, she smiles at me.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak




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