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Recent Examples of clung
Nurseries and a golf course clung to other parts of the city.
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Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
In 10 other cases, according to the review, people resisted arrest, some fleeing on foot, while in one instance, an agent briefly clung to the side of a moving car.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Fans clung to Pujols, if from afar.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Maduro is a terrible dictator who has destroyed the Venezuelan economy and corruptly clung to power.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.
—Rob Haskell, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
Many Malagasy people welcome the removal of Rajoelina, who clung to power amid the protests, having himself first been brought to power via a coup in 2009, to then be voted in as president in 2018.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Yet amid the unbearable pain, the couple clung to each other — and to their faith.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
This time was his time and with Gordon off the pitch, Woltemade grasped it and clung to it.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
In 10 other cases, according to the review, people resisted arrest, some fleeing on foot, while in one instance, an agent briefly clung to the side of a moving car.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Fans clung to Pujols, if from afar.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Maduro is a terrible dictator who has destroyed the Venezuelan economy and corruptly clung to power.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.
—Rob Haskell, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
Many Malagasy people welcome the removal of Rajoelina, who clung to power amid the protests, having himself first been brought to power via a coup in 2009, to then be voted in as president in 2018.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Yet amid the unbearable pain, the couple clung to each other — and to their faith.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
This time was his time and with Gordon off the pitch, Woltemade grasped it and clung to it.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clung
Verb
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Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But Larry, a true cynic, was stuck in a different time, gagged and bound by a tireless insistence on creating art that subverted and satirized those same good old-fashioned family values.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
24 Oct. 2025
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There was one particular pass that stuck in the mind.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Clung.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clung. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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