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PHILADELPHIA—Sam Fuld spent eight years in the major leagues trying to cling to a roster spot long enough to earn his next paycheck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

It is supplying the constitutional context and stripping away the pretense courts so often cling to when they want to stay out of the fray.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

To add to the drama, Muchova slipped when she had the chance to convert her first match point, and Gauff produced a clean cross-court winner to cling on.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

“A charming suggestion,” he said, “but I cling to the family motto. He travels the fastest who travels alone. Perhaps you have not heard of it.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

He gamely wears striped socks and short shorts; she sports Gloria Vanderbilt jeans and clings to her character’s emotional truth like it’s a bucking pterodactyl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The cheese clings to the warm crackers, the pepper blooms in the fat and the whole thing eats like the bar snack version of cacio e pepe.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

Combining data from a number of wildlife organisations, the group said the endangered species, which "still clings on" across Cumbria, Northumberland and the North Pennines, could disappear within 25 years.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

This water layer is only a few molecules thick, yet it clings to the nanopore surface and prevents ions from directly interacting with it.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026

Seaweed clings to her skull like a lethal plant.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

The new space cannot fully replicate the experience of visiting the cavernous undercroft when it was still raw and unfinished, with bottom-level soil so peaty that residue clung to one’s shoes for days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

"I managed to find a wooden plank, which I clung to for two days and one night," Begum said, noting she eventually caught the attention of a passing rescue ship.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Dodgers catcher had previously clung to hope that the two, who had been reported missing, would be found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

“This woman clung to her baby, and said, ‘I just had this baby.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

He grabbed the box but Zheng clung on to it like a leech.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

A second shift of employees assisted with a parade of people who came in with high hopes and usually left clinging to them after their free consultations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

In Nepal's capital, desperate people searching for family members missing after Wednesday's devastating floods post photographs on a wall, clinging to a final, fading hope of finding them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

This John Stewart is purposefully calm and assured, even when Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan, an entitled jerk clinging to crusted-over glory, provokes him.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

But a difficult period quickly followed - seemingly out of nowhere - leaving the 28-year-old Belarusian clinging on to her position going into the US Open, which starts on Sunday.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

With Eilonwy clinging to his belt, he bent low over the horse’s silver mane.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander