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clinging

adjective as in adhesive

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Mr Khalife escaped from HMP Wandsworth in south-west London in September 2023 by clinging to the underside of a food delivery truck using a makeshift sling.

From BBC

But neither did I charm neoliberal Democrats since the summer of 2016, when, even while warning about Trump’s triumphal but proto-fascist rampage through the Republican primaries, I denounced Hillary Clinton’s clinging to the turbo-capitalism of moguls and managers of finance.

From Salon

He had been clinging to a tree.

From BBC

Republicans are clinging to a razor-thin, four-seat majority in the House and are defending 15 seats nationally seen as toss-ups.

The Redondo Beach Harbor Patrol received a distress call just after 1 p.m. reporting a boat had overturned and the people on board were in the water clinging to it.

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

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