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gripped

adjective as in held

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Magistrate Judge A. Joel Richlin, he had one hand cuffed in front of him while the other gripped a cane.

The mood around England seems increasingly gripped by a sense of drift, a holding operation with Carsley as the front man while Tuchel strangely waits in the wings before taking charge.

From BBC

He gripped the handlebars, closed his eyes and “got zen,” as he says.

Australian scientists have solved a mystery which has gripped Sydney: what were the sticky dark blobs which washed up on some of the city's famed beaches last month?

From BBC

Since 2020, an extreme and exceptional agricultural drought has gripped northeast Syria and parts of Iraq.

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

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