latch on
phrasal verb
latched on; latching on; latches on
British, informal
: to begin to understand something
What he was saying was complicated, so it took me a while to latch on.
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This time, CaBot latched on to the pertinent data and did not seem to make anything up.
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Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The reason why Spencer Cox has gotten so much attention in these days is because his voice seems so disparate from the louder voices that are immediately latching on to this terrible event, and attacking each other, and casting blame without finding ways to calm the temperature down.
—NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
Conspiracy theorists had latched on to the missing minute of footage — from 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019 to midnight — as proof of a nefarious plot to cover-up a murder in Epstein's prison cell and frame it as a suicide.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2025
At that point the decision was made to part ways with Buehler, and the club opted to release him in hopes of giving him enough time to latch on with a new team.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
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Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The reason why Spencer Cox has gotten so much attention in these days is because his voice seems so disparate from the louder voices that are immediately latching on to this terrible event, and attacking each other, and casting blame without finding ways to calm the temperature down.
—NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
Conspiracy theorists had latched on to the missing minute of footage — from 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019 to midnight — as proof of a nefarious plot to cover-up a murder in Epstein's prison cell and frame it as a suicide.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2025
At that point the decision was made to part ways with Buehler, and the club opted to release him in hopes of giving him enough time to latch on with a new team.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for latch on
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“Latch on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latch%20on. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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