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His vision for Africa and better grasp of the local markets over decades has helped him gain a competitive edge over foreign multinationals in fields like manufacturing and fossil fuels.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

We can stand face-to-face with Rembrandt, and he may be returning our gaze, but the possibility of truly knowing the person behind the painted face remains beyond our grasp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But Holmes doesn’t grasp where her ideas end, and someone else’s influence begins.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

But on the next play, linebacker Nate Landman punched the ball from Cook’s grasp and Aaron Donald recovered the fumble with 7:54 left.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

In some respects he repeated the error of his ways in the third game as well: letting a potential—or at least a possible—win slip through his grasp and drift into a draw.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

A poolside interlude channels the tension of distance between two people who were once close: The woman grasps a book but seems primarily absorbed in melancholy; the man broods around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Although she grasps the issues that can arise with the product, she says, most of her life is pretty well documented anyway.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

She also grasps that comedy reigns on the Internet.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025

But already, with this first move, Moscow has shown that it grasps the depth of local frustrations.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

At the end of it, a fingerlike protrusion wiggles and grasps.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The secretary may have gone to Princeton University, but he hasn’t yet grasped the concept of irony.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

One influential figure predicts an array of grim economic consequences, unconvinced that Burnham and his team have grasped what might be coming down the track and planned accordingly.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

Emanuel grasped the potential of the diesel engine and secured its patent rights in Russia in 1898.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The screecher still hadn’t quite grasped the art of running.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

She had been frustrated that one of her junior reports wasn’t grasping her pointers on pitching clients, so she role-played the conversation with the AI coach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Still grasping for the brass ring, still chasing the pot of gold.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

As children, we sense the edges of these silences without fully grasping them.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

In fact, it’s so in love with its flawed protagonist that it can’t see he’s the least compelling character in the movie, an ambitious, arrogant, grasping, unscrupulous man we’ve met countless times before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The Muscogees called the squatters a name that, in their language, means “people greedily grasping after the land.”

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz