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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fisted
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As the service began, it was clasped shut.
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The Philly duo’s tender, faintly medieval-sounding folk song has its hands clasped and its heart on its sleeve.
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Women clutched photographs of sons and brothers killed in the war — many of them fighting for Hezbollah — while others held photographs of Nasrallah or Iran’s Khamenei.
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Eitan, 3, clutched a dinosaur while his older brother, Abel, 6, held a bright orange fox clad in a rainbow long-sleeve shirt.
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In second grade, Hung completed a yearlong math class in three months and grasped pre-algebra in third grade, said Choi, a longtime tutor who began teaching her son during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The drive to define the face as a data point, something to be grasped and controlled, underpins the bureaucracy of the modern nation-state, in which faces are surveyed, categorized, and stored in digital banks.
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Much of the wider region — Nevada, Colorado and beyond — has been gripped by widespread drought after an unusually dry winter.
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With Utah gripped by one of its most dangerous wildfire seasons in recent memory, state officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on Fourth of July fireworks ahead of the nation’s 250th Independence Day celebrations, saying the risk of sparking catastrophic new fires is simply too great.
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With a round-of-32 game against Ivory Coast on Tuesday secured, Norway are dreaming of a run to the final on July 19.
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Objects that are outdoors should be secured and caution should be taken if driving.
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The rapper, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, has been held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center since he was arrested in September 2024.
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That means every state budget could be held hostage until the whims of a small fraction of legislators is satisfied.
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“Fisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fisted. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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