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







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He gripped the controls and expected the engine to give out at any second, until he spotted a parking lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

London's sold-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition will open Thursday to a British public gripped by "mania" as the medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England goes on display outside France for the first time.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

A judge has again told the deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial to keep trying to reach a verdict after a dramatic sixth day of deliberations in a case that has gripped America.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Keith Waldrop’s memoir of midcentury America is saturated by the religious fervor that gripped his mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He gripped a book but Chicken’s hands were tugging it from his grasp.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn




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