gripped
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The five-week trial, its lead-up and aftermath gripped Americans, and put postpartum mental health issues such as psychosis in the spotlight.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
The country has been gripped by pope fever.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
The ECB’s rate decision was its first since France’s government bond market was gripped by a violent selloff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Many of the beautiful, sometimes ingenious products and technologies developed with the rise of the modern era gripped the popular imagination and made life easier, healthier and more connected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
With a pencil gripped in her left hand, she wrote in reverse on long lengths of rolled brown paper, taking down the spirit communications.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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