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Recent Examples of grabby But since people are more likely to see grabby social media ads, the risks are frequently left out. Hannah Jackson, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022 In certain regen settings, this can make the brakes feel grabby toward the end of a stop, particularly with the M Sport brakes, which have more initial bite and 14.7-inch front rotors instead of 13.7-inchers. Dan Edmunds and Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 29 July 2022 The film has a grabby premise, lightly fictionalizing the story of the pre-fame Whitney Houston, here named Beauty (Gracie Marie Bradley). Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022 Fully vaccinated is also grabby in a way that up to date is not. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for grabby
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grabby
Adjective
  • Bad guys are selfish, greedy, and prone to speeches.
    John DeVore, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.
    Josh Bell, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Use the dome light and flashers to make your vehicle more noticeable.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Arsenal’s change in tack from corners was immediately noticeable in their 1-1 draw with Brentford.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But Hilton could be eager for a showdown with Harris.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The market is eager for trade deals that can help remove some of the worst-case scenarios before the tariffs inflict serious damage on the economy.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And as longer-term followers of MLS will know, there used to be a slash in one of America’s most prominent clubs, too.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • One of the most prominent counterarguments comes from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which suggests that governments issuing their own currency can never run out of money.
    Sanford Mann, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • And how to be optimally developmental and transactional in an increasingly mercenary environment.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The prominent credit-card swiper offers 15 minutes for the high price of $15, and the show follows up on the Gemstones’ mercenary shamelessness later when someone working the telethon phone bank asks for a donor’s routing number.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • On election day, early results gave Cárdenas a commanding lead over the PRI’s candidate, Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
    Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • After the first leg in Lyon had ended 2-2 last week, United took a commanding lead in Thursday’s return fixture thanks to first-half goals from Manuel Ugarte and Diogo Dalot.
    George Ramsay, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Thanks to Jenner’s hundreds of millions of followers on Instagram, Snapchat, and other social media, Jenner had easy and essentially costless access to an acquisitive demographic.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Like other acquisitive companies, the integration of technology was sub-optimal.
    Peter High, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The sight of brown pelicans diving headfirst into the ocean in pursuit of a meal represents one of the distinctive visual images of the California coast, their dramatic flight the highlight of a predatory mission.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • What To Know The satellite image showed the U.S. carrier that lost the plane making a dramatic turn on April 25.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Grabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grabby. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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