clambered

past tense of clamber
as in climbed
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 clambered Several members equipped with climbing harnesses clambered up a small tree on the school’s front lawn and dangled from its limbs on climbing ropes. Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026 Cars honked their horns and cyclists pulled over to tune in as flags fluttered in the wind, fans clambered to see the screen, and people hugged and shouted. Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 17 June 2026 Three mules ferrying bags of cement clambered past us on their own dirt track that ran shorter and even steeper up to the top. Erin Tan, NBC news, 13 May 2026 The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo. Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026 At another point, a ranger waded through the mud of a mangrove forest and clambered into a mangrove to catch a bird for a blood sample, before doing the same trek in reverse to put it back. Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026 His friend who was hiking with him clambered to an area with cell service to call for help after Casanova fell more than 500 feet near the steep Devils Backbone trail, the sheriff’s department said in a press release. Lucy Hodgman, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2026 As men clambered into the world-famous museum, nobody was actively monitoring that specific feed, legislators were told. Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2025 In the mood to handle the lights himself a couple of weeks ago, Foil put up a ladder and clambered atop the roof. Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clambered
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  • Back on the job the morning after the alert was lifted, Isidro threw a rope over an avocado tree about 20 feet (6 meters) high and climbed up.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The average freight rate climbed 9 percent percent year over year to $1,475 per 20-foot container (TEU).
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026
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  • The sitting governor campaigned with Crowley in the final sprint to the primary as the party scrambled to unite around an alternative to Hong.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Doctors scrambled to figure out what was going on, running more tests.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Clambered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clambered. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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