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grasping

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Lentink and the team went through many iterations of the robot legs in order to get the grasping effect onto surfaces like tree branches just right.

Perhaps, he ponders, that’s why he wound up studying robotic grasping.

House progressives are right to protect the American people from Manchin’s hyper-partisan grasping, even if that means slamming the door on Manchin’s emaciated shadow of a spending package.

Rounded ones, for example, can be hard for those with arthritis to grasp—and not everyone has hands with which to do the grasping.

The newborn box, for example, focuses on high contrast items and things that’ll make tummy time a little more fun, whereas later boxes bring in toys that help with finer motor skills like stacking and grasping.

But there is a big twist in this story that has left both Grace Castro and Lozoya frustrated and grasping for more answers.

Yet financialism can leave voters feeling queasy, and candidates grasping for answers.

The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us.

After a first go through, they appear to be grasping for what to do next.

And that is the key to grasping how we Americans can and cannot take him seriously as a would-be political messiah.

She sat for a few minutes, looking abstractedly down, grasping the letter she had received.

During this conversation Harry's right hand was resting beneath his jacket, grasping the butt of his revolver.

It showed Black Hood's gauntlet covered right hand grasping the knife that was plunged into Joseph's throat.

"And thou hast saved our lives my brave lass," cried Rushmere, grasping her cold hand, which he was chafing in his own.

They demanded money, and were as grasping and cunning in their dealings as the most civilized Europeans.

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to grasping, such as: null, mean, penny-pinching, acquisitive, avaricious, and avid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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