clasping
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Another was likely written while in China: “A soldier, yet a priest / clasping my hands in prayer / toward the moon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Then the beetle seeks out an ant — climbing on top of it, clasping its antennae in its jaws and scooping up its pheromones with brush-like legs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
On the coastal road at Playa Canizo, a man in a straw hat and sodden fatigues, clasping an equally wet suitcase, thrust out his left arm, hoping for a ride to safety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
“He doesn’t know he was in a movie,” said Leonberg, clasping a happily wriggling Indy, who doesn’t register me on the other end of the Zoom interview.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2025
The old woman quickly wrapped one arm around the Iron Rod, clasping her grandchild protectively with the other.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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