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"So, a lot of them have developed grasping structures to connect themselves to a mate during reproduction."

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“The first time it happened, we were really young,” Key said, gingerly grasping a spoon with his heavily tattooed hand while stirring a cup of hot tea.

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He’s figured out something the rest of Wall Street seems constitutionally incapable of grasping: that dividends are boring — which is precisely why they work.

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It also applies to many of us who are currently grasping at the best ways to confront the injustices in our country, to say nothing of those occurring in our own backyards.

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

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

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