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"latching onto" is a valid phrase in English
It is used to describe a person, animal, or object firmly holding on to something, such as a belief or idea. For example, "The child latched onto the teacher's explanation of the math problem, quickly understanding the concept."
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"They're just latching onto the idea of it".
The triungulins respond by latching onto the male.
Tumors that are "estrogen-receptor positive," latching onto estrogen and feeding off it, can be fooled into latching onto look-alike tamoxifen instead, and starved.
Or latching onto it because all the other media are running it.
Small wonder, then, that they are latching onto every technicality in sight.
"Charles is latching onto the buzzwords of the week," Mr. Heaney said.
(Television and movie producers took notice, latching onto her songs like "Hide and Seek").
No single mutation could allow the viruses to start latching onto OmpF.
It also sends signals into our cells by latching onto a receptor on cells called CD44.
Latching onto Shearer's flick, the enigmatic Frenchman rifled low and hard into the bottom corner.
Tamoxifen prevents estrogen from latching onto tumor cell receptors and directing them to multiply.
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