latch
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Fast-forward 40 years, it’s impossible to imagine that MacLachlan would have anything else for Other Kyle to latch onto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
For decades, drugmakers had called RAS “undruggable,” because its surface was too smooth for traditional molecules to latch on to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The aim is then for the robot to maneuver around the telescope and latch on with three movable arms.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The episode punctuated how reflexively we latch onto the idea of weakness as the primary outgrowth of racial injustice.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
Instead, she felt something like a latch unclasping inside her.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Nino loses both parents when very young but latches on to his grandfather’s tale that they’re not dead, they’re merely living in peace in a heavenly place, “on the island.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Tesla’s vehicles primarily use electronic door latches that are opened by pressing a button.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
He latches onto a careless back-header by Tyler Bindon and takes the ball around Reading keeper Joel Pereira, but Bindon atones by getting back to block on the line.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
Postdoctoral researcher and study co-author Ashley Bennett offers a play-by-play: As the virus feels for its best attachment point on a human T-cell, the host cell's CD4 receptor is the first thing it latches onto.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024
She rushed to it and threw open the latches, then the lid. dines into a vehicle built for three.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
Vocabulary lists containing latch
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 4
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"Little Red Riding Hood" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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"Core Curriculum: Introductory Craft Skills," Vocabulary from Module Six
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