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the grappling
noun
A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
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The settings range from a truly evil-looking prison cell — what are the grappling hooks for, pray tell?
I prefer Greengrass's end: the grappling chaos in the cockpit suddenly gives way, with no explosion and no blotting out of light, to a close-up of the grass in that field outside Pittsburgh.
Blues keeper Jack Butland touched Nugent's 20-yarder round the post and, from the resulting James corner, the ball flew in off the head of Davies - clearly distracted by the grappling presence of Wes Morgan.
He was also not a fan of the grappling aspects of MMA, but the UFC rebuffed his suggestion to change the rules of the sport to accommodate striking.
And the grappling continued when he took his title ambitions to Miami.
The "condensed thinking" happens on trains and the "grappling with verbal stuff" happens in London.
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They struggled just inside the door, grappling for the officer's gun.
The chaebol and the government are grappling with the rising discontent.
One of the people grappling with this issue was Jeff Turnbull.
Immigrants throughout the country are grappling with the same question.
Around the time Gaudi was grappling with the architectural challenge of his soaring nave in Barcelona, the Church was grappling with the works of Charles Darwin.
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