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Those modifications cause the histones to loosen their grip on DNA, opening up access for transcription factors that are needed to turn genes on.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Mahinda Rajapaksa served as president of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015 and for years, his family held a tight grip over the country's politics.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

My grip strength, which is viewed as a marker of overall health, also didn’t correlate, and the clinician started a thoughtful conversation: Was I fatigued?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

As with all Sphere acts, that visual wattage can absolutely grip you, or it can feel using a flamethrower to grill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

In the YA section, some kids from school were playing on the computers, and they pointed and giggled when they saw Jonah being paraded around, his arm trapped in the librarian’s grip.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

“He stole a motorcycle and rode it around. He almost knocked a bunch of grips and gaffers off their ladders,” André recalled in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Many of these are solid, middle-class jobs held by people behind the scenes who keep studios humming, including camera operators, makeup artists and grips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

But the Fife town is in the grips of an affordable housing crisis, where property prices are being stoked by the influence of wealthy buyers from outwith Scotland.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

“A poem is like an octopus,” Mr. Power continues, “because it is tricky to get to grips with . . . but also because it carries with it traces of all the places it’s been.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

She grips her water glass in both hands, pulls the glass close to her chest.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

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

Instead, that was when meme-stock mania briefly gripped the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world and has been gripped by a vast humanitarian crisis since the civil war broke out in 2014.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The historic $110 billion Hollywood tie-up comes as a powerful selloff in long-dated Treasurys has gripped financial markets, pushing up benchmark yields to their highest levels since 2002.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

So he gripped the ridge of the scales and flattened himself against the dragon’s back, and with great gusts of wind buffeting at his ears, they rose together.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

And he came half over the edge, and gript the Diskos by the handle, in an instant.

From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

And he rode at that Emir, and gript him in his arms.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

The thumbs should be locked, the knees slightly bent, and the edge of the diving-board gript well with the toes.

From Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old by Frank Eugen Dalton

And first gaed by the black, black steed,   And then gaed by the broun; But fast she gript the milk-white steed,   And pu'd the rider doun.

From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates

And first gaed by the black black steed, And then gaed by the brown; But fast she gript the milk-white steed, And pu'd the rider down.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott

In late August, on a trip to Kyrgyzstan for a regional summit, a widely shared clip showed him descending an airplane’s stairs slowly and stiffly, gripping the hand of his wife, Peng Liyuan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

If the drama is oversimplified, it nonetheless makes for a gripping spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

However, temperatures will be lower than at the weekend when a southerly wind pulled in warm air from a heatwave gripping central and southern Europe.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Stocks stumbled out of the gate after Labor Day, with a jittery tone gripping markets as the typically weak month of September began in earnest after the holiday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

What did I fear more, those four fingers, big as giant sausages, gripping the brim and my whisker, or sailing off his head and out to sea?

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck