grasped
Example Sentences
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On his debut, Samba played the entire 90 minutes and fully grasped his opportunity.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Tom gets his travel piece and his tourists, but he also learns that attempting to remain “reasonable” can be its own form of delusion, an indication that you haven’t grasped the gravity of the situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Unseeded Michelsen came into the match in fine form, having not dropped a set at the tournament prior to facing Tiafoe, and grasped the momentum in the first set.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The road to recovery is long, and some patients "still haven't really grasped the magnitude of what happened to them," Bianca Damaso, a physician specializing in prosthetics, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Glanvill would presumably have been shocked to learn that Boyle and Newton did not share his views, but it was he, not they, who had grasped the relationship between alchemy and the new science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
