grasp
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Satellite technology, for instance, is being used to grasp global crude inventories “in great detail,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Xi added that he had reached an "important consensus" with Kim to "grasp the trend of the times" and deepen both high-level exchanges and people-to-people bonds.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
“I still can’t grasp how he feeds all that cattle,” a Rabo employee wrote in an email to colleagues involved in the lending.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Turkmenistan's ruling duo -- Gurbanguly and Serdar Berdymukhamedov -- hold a tight grasp on power.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
One of the ghosts tried reaching slowly for the lighter, attracted and repelled at once, but he kept it out of their grasp.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing grasp
"Mending Wall," by Robert Frost
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Excerpt from "The Diary of Anne Frank"
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