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clamber

[klam-ber, klam-er] / ˈklæm bər, ˈklæm ər /
VERB
mount
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Driver Andriy, 53, is one of the first Ukrainian faces many of the freed soldiers see as they clamber onto his bus.

From Barron's Mar. 18, 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

"Five more minutes, and I would have left you," the pilot tells the reporters as they clamber back in, the chopper stuttering up and banking over the town's remains.

From Barron's Nov. 18, 2025

Over the course of perhaps ten minutes, one man sitting at the front of the boat appeared to usher people forwards, to clamber onboard in relatively organised, even orderly, groups.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2025

Cluny’s followers were kicking at each other and screaming as they tried to clamber down from the high elm branches.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

A hiker clambers across a scorched landscape of ash, his footsteps crunching on charred earth as he peers over a ridge at a burn scar pocked with blackened stumps.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 26, 2025

Out clambers the man who runs security for Esh Kodesh and the surrounding outposts.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2023

Staticky, menacing voices croak from old radios and Michael Burgess’s camera beckons us into underground tunnels and clambers up walls on the heels of the villain and his victims.

From New York Times Sep. 10, 2021

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

Swiftly, Zola clambers down through the trippy-trap door.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

Army personnel lowered themselves from the helicopter and clambered up a muddy slope to pull out people covered in mud.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Several members equipped with climbing harnesses clambered up a small tree on the school’s front lawn and dangled from its limbs on climbing ropes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

When referee Mary Victoria Penso blew the final whistle in New Jersey, Ecuador Sebastian Beccacece clambered over the stadium barriers to celebrate with his family.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

"It would have been directed to their known position and they would have just clambered on board, just like would to get on a boat at sea."

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

Gelifen did want the cheese—he clambered across the table, joyfully hungry, and devoured half the plateful before Mal lifted his reluctant, flapping body away.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

There, I joined a dozen young locals clambering aboard a rustic barge.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

It was August 2013, and we were clambering up the majestic and regal unrealness that is Mt.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

It's got the touchy-feely, we're-not-uptight family atmosphere, full of playful laughs and children clambering over their parents.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2025

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

Rudi and Arthur follow, clambering behind, up the narrow stairs, groping their way to the rooftop.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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