grasped

Example Sentences

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Jackson says students clearly grasped the power of compound growth over time that he discussed in class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

They are eternally simply themselves, grasped in a minute.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Still under the influence of the propaganda she had absorbed as a child, she had not then grasped the degree of Mao’s cruelty and cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Or maybe it just sounded like a cool phrase, and no one involved grasped the weirdness of the metaphor.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

Underneath the table, I grasped my hands tightly to still their trembling.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros