grope

One thing is certain: We do need a place where we can grope toward shared understanding of world events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

“The Bravest — grope a little — And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead,” the poet wrote.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

Jameela Jamil, star of The Good Place, offered: "It should only be technical. It's like a stunt. Our job as actors is to make it not look technical. Nobody wants an impromptu grope."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022

“Here, everything is done in-house by FIFA. So it’s been a really long and arduous process. The terms have been incredibly difficult for cities to grope with.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

It is dark, I grope for the edge of the bed and cautiously try to slide down.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Partly that’s because most corporate media wouldn’t have carried Hedges’ denunciation of everything it gropes us for.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2019

He slams on the brakes, opens the door, gropes for his cane.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018

It all seemed pretty incoherent, at any rate, which was perhaps intended to signal Dany’s ongoing fumbling as she gropes toward … hey look, its Drogon!

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2015

He gropes around in the inside pocket of his jacket, only to grasp a handful of teabags.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2012

Starry gropes after the material that's been yanked from her hands, but it falls out of reach and the whole quilt tumbles down the chute.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Andy Robertson gave it away in a hurry, Scotland lost the collision, Bruno Guimaraes dinked it to the back post, Gunn groped at air and Nathan Patterson lost Vini Jr. How could he miss him?

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The board groped its way through early decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, is pressing charges against a man who groped her on the street and is pushing nationwide measures against sexual harassment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025

A Loudoun County jury found former superintendent Scott Ziegler guilty of unlawfully discharging a teacher who reported being repeatedly groped by a student.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

If I groped about in the dark long enough, I might manage eventually to break into the book keeper's trunk and liberate the script.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Ms. Dunn’s underlying theme is that humans spent centuries groping in the dark for their position, built a system that ended that groping, and then forgot the dark was ever there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

She’s also spinning an intergenerational tale of Black women groping past their initial distrust to a deeper understanding of what they have in common.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Such people are groping for answers and meaning.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025

Carlton Huffman, 40, had accused Mr. Schlapp, 56, the head of the American Conservative Union and an adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, of groping him after a campaign event in Georgia in 2022.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

To reach it without groping, he had to raise himself somewhat higher, which caused the back of his head to graze a corner of the lampshade.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger