cleaving

present participle of cleave
as in adhering
to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion you should resolutely cleave to the facts in your report

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Recent Examples of cleaving And of course, from a more skeptical perspective, the whole project could be described as cleaving close to the wisdom of the strippers in Gypsy. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • But the kitchen, overseen by Curtola along with the chef de cuisine Ben Zook, seems more interested in conjuring an authenticity of atmosphere than in adhering strictly to traditional recipes or preparations.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • After evaluating 200 hospital patients participating in the King's College London Oral, Dental, and Craniofacial Biobank, researchers found that those adhering most closely to a Mediterranean diet had the lowest levels of gum disease.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • And the cozy Walker's Point restaurant — plus cooking school, plus event space — has been going strong since, sticking strong to its mission to support local farmers in every season.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And yet, hiring a college coach to manage means sticking your neck out in a way that no top baseball executive ever has.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • And in the third period with the Sabres clinging to a 3-2 lead, Luukkonen couldn’t come up with the save his team needed.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In the spring of 2024, another photo, the last, showed him in pretty much the same outfit somewhere on the streets of Santa Fe, clinging to Betsy’s arm.
    Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Cleaving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleaving. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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