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"grasp at" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to mean "to eagerly try to grasp or seize something". For example, "He grasped at the opportunity to start his own business."
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Ghostly hands grasp at something unseen.
Don't grasp at these memories; the memories are not you.
We grasp at the same partisan clichés and talking points.
It's a tough play to grasp at one sitting.
McDonagh's two panic-stricken clowns grasp at any excuse to placate their likely executioner.
Speculators, he says, are having to grasp at straws to rationalise being long in oil.
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Their defenders grasped at air.
I'm grasping at straws".
"They were grasping at straws," Jones said.
Daniels grasped at that false straw.
But I was grasping at nonexistent straws.
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