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clamber

[klam-ber, klam-er] / ˈklæm bər, ˈklæm ər /
VERB
mount
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As long as fans still hunger to see their favorite artists live, it seems likely that singers will keep trying to clamber back onto stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The roar of engines fills the night air in China's Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Those lucky enough to snap out of psychosis and regain touch with the tangible world are now building support groups online to help others clamber out.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026

That's why politicians, business and civic leaders, academics and investors all clamber to get into the room.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025

She and Sasha had to crawl into the back of the plummeting plane and clamber out through the lower hatch, too.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

But the rescuer reaches Alma first, and she clambers out - unaided - from between jagged slabs of concrete and twisted metal bars.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024

Nyayien Yow, a widowed mother of five, scrapes together a living by paddling out into the floodwater by canoe, where she clambers up semi-submerged trees to collect firewood for sale in a local market.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

In a separate clip, also filmed from the crush of the crowd of several hundred people, a woman clambers over the wall.

From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2021

Amid a torrential downpour, a broken man clambers up a slope and finds himself face to face with a large, growling dog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2020

He trots alongside a freight car and clambers aboard, holding his bread.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Crews clambered in to find Sanjaya Shah and Kabir Maharjan - both had injuries on their hands and legs, "possibly" from crawling through the tunnel.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Americans have clambered to travel overseas in recent years, and airlines are racing to add service to match their zeal for new experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Now something of a local hero, the goat accompanied Promise to a nearby supermarket where fans clambered to take photos of the animal.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The three, adrenaline pumping, clambered through the pancaked wreckage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Cook clambered in heavily, almost pulling Razi back into the water in the process.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

I soon found myself clambering on hands and knees in my swim shorts into a dirt-floored dome made from sticks and blankets, and sitting cross-legged as red-hot volcanic stones were laid in a central pit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Obviously, clambering up and down the dangerously steep pass, ferrying goods on horseback or by mule or — for a few wacky, experimental months in the mid-1850s, Army camels — wasn’t workable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

After clambering up three flights of a dark apartment-building stairwell, I entered Higatei, which celebrates all things awamori, an Okinawan rice-based spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

"I feel good; a little nervous, but I think it'll be fine. We'll hold on and give it everything!" said Nina Beeler, before clambering on board Cobra, an eight-year-old Swiss Brown cow.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

In a burst of speed, he zigzagged through the debris, leaping over chunks of ice and clambering up the face of the glacier.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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