death grip

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Recent Examples of death grip Alma clutched her arm and didn’t let go—a death grip. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 The snow and the low temperatures put Florida’s citrus and vegetable industry in a death grip. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025 Its strategy relied on maintaining a death grip on existing customers. Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024 Smash the party’s death grip on the court and vote for Wendy Li. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for death grip
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Noun
  • The Hanged Man asks you to fully surrender control and embrace this chapter of stillness.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 May 2025
  • That proposal would see Moscow de facto control parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions that Russia occupies but does not fully control.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Hugo saw that something as simple as shoes could be solved with the right approach and insights, cementing his belief in the power of technology to solve real-world problems.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Skilled project leaders are needed to combine their technical skill set (project management tools like Trello and Asana) with power skills like leadership, stakeholder management, and problem-solving.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In 1911, the Crystal Palace hosted its largest event, the Festival of Empire Exhibition, a chance for subjects to see their rulers in person, for overseas dominions to sing the empire’s praises and for imperial unity to shine out across the world.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2024
  • As America steers the rickety tricycle of its fading dominion toward the boundless horizon of partisan derangement and endless griping, football will once again go about its job of trying to distract us from whatever the government decides to get up to in 2025.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes international relations fell under the sway of a powerful hegemon—or of outright imperialism, where a single state, such as Rome, or an outside invader, such as the Ottoman empire, dominated its neighbors and provided them with security.
    Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
  • At one point in the play, young, brainwashed Henry, under the villainous Brenner’s sway, can only surrender to the dark magic.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The story of Kaabu's royalty and reign has been told for generations through the songs of griots.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Wojtyła took the regnal name after his predecessor, Pope John Paul I, who passed away only a month into his reign as the sovereign of Vatican City.
    Gabriele Regalbuto, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Death grip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/death%20grip. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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