hasp

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hasp
Verb
  • The video showed that during the second time, the dog latched onto Evans’ left forearm and violently thrashed as Evans cried out in pain.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2025
  • For three days, Santi didn’t cry, didn’t latch, didn’t blink.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • The two enclosures connect to one another with standard speaker wire and basic clamping terminals.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
  • Animal Farm, published in 1945 as the Soviet Union was clamping its pincers on Eastern Europe, and 1948 – published at a time when Stalin had drawn the Iron Curtain between East and West – illustrate the moral depravity of the powerful who exert dominance over the powerless.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • The carving shows a woman standing with hands clasped in prayer, in a cloak covered in stars.
    Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
  • There was also a silver gelatin print of Naomi Campbell with a cell phone clasped to her ear that was taken for a 1995 issue of Vogue Italia that has a presale estimate between $1,200 and $2,000.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • After Rollins hit Punk with the briefcase, Cena tossed Punk out of the ring, took advantage, pinned Punk and retained his title.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Just look at Stone outside of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, looking effortlessly cool (in more ways than one) with her bang pinned to one side and swept away from her face with one or two bobby pins.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Then Stuart Heritage reports on the family drama that’s riveted the U.K.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 17 May 2025
  • The footage shown at CinemaCon riveted the room of exhibitors.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • At a hearing on Thursday, Hipolito walked into court, limping and shackled in the same clothes he had been arrested in.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • Abrego Garcia, who was shackled and wearing a red jumpsuit, was expected to be released Wednesday, if only into ICE custody.
    Travis Loller, Fortune, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • After the travel party’s homemade catamaran flipped, leaving the group to drift in the ocean for over 24 hours, Rockefeller strapped empty gasoline cans to his waist and swam for help.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
  • Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter tour has helped inspire an obsession with all things Wild West this year — and her stop in Las Vegas (July 25 - 26) is the perfect excuse to strap on your spurs, or at least purchase a cowboy hat.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • Among Ottawa’s forwards, Giroux’s 48 percent xG rate was one of the lowest despite being stapled to Tim Stützle (54 percent xG) for most of the year.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • Swerve absconded the staple gun and stapled everything that moved.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
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“Hasp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hasp. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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