grabber
Example Sentences
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He said Miller had assumed hydraulics would prevent movement of the grabber assembly.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Then he secretly purchases a passel of tortoises; constructs a long-handled grabber; leans down from his balcony; extracts Alfie; and, each week, substitutes a slightly heavier impostor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
For the next two hours, they plucked Q-tips and chicken bones off the ground with grabber tools.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
The headliner grabber was Sam Bankman-Fried and the implosion of his exchange, FTX, but scores of other crypto companies went belly up.
From Slate • May 23, 2025
And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm long enough to snatch Percy and Annabeth out of Tartarus, then that’s what he would do.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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