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 That leaves an untold number of fans who may have purchased an indoor antenna, a new receiver or even clambered up onto a roof to hook up an outdoor antenna, with a bunch of wires and a blank TV screen. Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025 Around four times each year, village captain Rosemarie Abogado gives the order to evacuate, and Sula’s 269 families clamber onto boats for the 20-minute journey to a nearby elementary school. Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025 But Hitchcock got the green light to send Grace Kelly and Cary Grant clambering over the Carlton rooftop. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025 The soldiers clambered onto snowmobiles and disappeared into a whiteout, snaking across the frozen Arctic Ocean in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Gavin John, New York Times, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for clamber
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  • The mother and son tried to climb to their roof, but Burgess, who is recovering from facial surgery, couldn't make it.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 July 2025
  • Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index climbed 1.1% to 24,140.13 while the Shanghai Composite gained 0.7% to 3,497.48.
    Teresa Cerojano, Fortune, 8 July 2025
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  • Agencies are scrambling to respond with rules, but Congress has been slow to act.
    Tor Constantino, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • OpenAI is reportedly scrambling to contain the fallout after a wave of high-profile researcher departures to Meta, with Chief Research Officer Mark Chen likening the exodus to a home invasion.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 1 July 2025

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“Clamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clamber. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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