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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms 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
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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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Now, agencies are scrambling to prove their productivity instead of chasing their best ideas through the creative alchemy of experience, instinct, insight and bold thinking.—
Jacquelyn LaMar Berney,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Even as the Anduril engineers congratulated themselves on a successful test, people elsewhere were scrambling to create new advantages, under the messy conditions of war.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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“Clamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clamber. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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