latch on
phrasal verb
latched on; latching on; latches on
British, informal
: to begin to understand something
What he was saying was complicated, so it took me a while to latch on.
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Reagan latched on to something deep in the national psyche—a need for absolution, perhaps, strongly felt in the dour nineteen-seventies.
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The ultimate aim is to release a fleet of these robots in Antarctica, which will latch on to the ice and capture data over long periods in one of the most inaccessible places on Earth.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
These holds compress the breast like a sandwich so the baby has something to latch on to.
—Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 29 July 2024
With imatinib latched on, the ATP site is blocked, preventing BCR-ABL from binding ATP and activating the downstream pathways.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The ultimate aim is to release a fleet of these robots in Antarctica, which will latch on to the ice and capture data over long periods in one of the most inaccessible places on Earth.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
These holds compress the breast like a sandwich so the baby has something to latch on to.
—Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 29 July 2024
With imatinib latched on, the ATP site is blocked, preventing BCR-ABL from binding ATP and activating the downstream pathways.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Latch on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latch%20on. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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