grasp

“Neighbors that I talked to, we just wanted something to grasp onto that we’re actually moving forward. There’s some realization that we can get back home sooner rather than later.”

“Dr. Retsef is neither a public health practitioner nor a healthcare provider, which may be why he doesn’t appear to grasp this distinction.”

Metcalfe’s pursuit of revelation in a single lost poem is magical thinking, a relentless grasping for a chimera.

Clayton Kershaw took a deep breath, grasped the microphone with his left hand, then chuckled as he scanned the room around him.

That misses the point of his career and fails to grasp the nature of his accomplishment.