as in to climb
to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling
clambered over a wall and was never seen again
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Recent Examples of clamber
The picture-takers have ignored it, often clambering over to take their photos.
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Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
Video footage posted on social media by crowd members showed the nude man clambering up to stand on top of the entrance of Tiana's Place, a Creole and Cajun restaurant that pays homage to the character of Tiana Rogers from Disney's The Princess and the Frog film.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Though hampered somewhat by Brexit, England saw sales shrink just 5 percent over 2023 and thus clambered back to second place in the market with $10.4 billion, while China experienced a 31 percent decline, to $8.4 billion.
—News Desk, Artforum, 8 Apr. 2025
An old woman and an old man, innocent as lambs, clambering over rubble with their piteous backpacks and bundles.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
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Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
Video footage posted on social media by crowd members showed the nude man clambering up to stand on top of the entrance of Tiana's Place, a Creole and Cajun restaurant that pays homage to the character of Tiana Rogers from Disney's The Princess and the Frog film.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Though hampered somewhat by Brexit, England saw sales shrink just 5 percent over 2023 and thus clambered back to second place in the market with $10.4 billion, while China experienced a 31 percent decline, to $8.4 billion.
—News Desk, Artforum, 8 Apr. 2025
An old woman and an old man, innocent as lambs, clambering over rubble with their piteous backpacks and bundles.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clamber
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Both dogs are fairly large, but both struggled to climb into the Velar’s boot, even with the clever Access suspension lowering mode enabled.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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As protesters attempted to stop the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election, Babbitt was climbing through the broken window of a barricaded door to the Speaker’s Lobby when she was shot.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 May 2025
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The cancellation has jeopardized research in universities in virtually every state, leaving researchers scrambling to find funding for projects that in many cases are only partly completed.—
Steven Lee Myers,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Yet, too often, nonprofits are forced to operate in a state of financial precarity, relying on a single source of funding or scrambling to adjust to shifting donor priorities.—
Firaaz Azeez,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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“Clamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clamber. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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