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clutches

noun as in personal power

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It’s so tempting to curse this rare affliction that can leave anyone in its clutches feeling helpless.

He also made two bad decisions, throwing into a throng of defenders in the end zone and hurling a ball up for grabs while in the clutches of a defender to prevent a safety.

Nisar clutches a Quran, unable still to process how his world was shattered in a single day.

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"Lively is perfectly cast and has that combination of self-consciousness, determination and doubt that is wholly fitting for a character yearning to break free from the coercive clutches of those around her," Kevin Maher wrote.

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More snaps, and Trump clutches his right ear and begins to duck beneath the podium.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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