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"clutch at" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
This phrase usually conveys a sense of desperation, usually when grasping for a solution. For example, "The family clutched at the little bit of hope they had left."

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Not to "Mr. Clutch," at least.

What do we clutch at in place of science?

The two young women, blinded, drop to their knees screaming and clutch at their faces.

" "If they want to clutch at those straws, they're very welcome to," they added.

Untrimmed thorns and sapling limbs clutch at the car with intermittent shrieks that embarrass you.

In another country, or another province, he might have other straws to clutch at.

Because film is so ephemeral, there is a tendency to overcompensate and clutch at anything permanent.

Clutch at her, and you grasp but the wispy tendrils of a dream.

If your problem can't be solved, then it's human nature to clutch at straws.

It's an obvious straw for an embattled chancellor to clutch at.

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The game was deadlocked until the eighth — Cobb and Buchholz both gone — when the Rays strung together a series of clutch at-bats.

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