groping

Example Sentences

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Vandier said AI is turning military intelligence analysis from a task of groping in darkness for targets to one of sifting through piles of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Selecting Isak ahead of him lacked logic, smacking of a manager groping for answers, almost trying to get an expensive signing to play himself into the team.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

Such people are groping for answers and meaning.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

“One leg, two legs — got it,” Dave Laithwaite, a volunteer at the sanctuary, said while groping around in the mud in the kiwi’s narrow den.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

The next minute she was holding her head, her eyes squeezed shut, groping for the sofa, and then crumpling softly to the floor with fluttering hands.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan