FISTING Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

fisting

verb

present participle of fist

as in clasping

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But if the awards season goes as the streamer plans, a journey that began in Cannes with a rapturous standing ovation, could end with Los Javis clasping some golden statues.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026
One juror was rubbing his eyes as Sullivan talked, and another was clasping and unclasping his hands in his lap.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of clasping

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What happened—which can be reconstructed from messages that the agents sent one another and from traces of their own internal reasoning, known as chain-of-thought records—makes for gripping reading.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Each chapter of her life delivers gripping scenes with twists and turns, accomplishments and setbacks.

— Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of gripping

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Three months after his brother’s murder, Leroy still has a hard time grasping his family’s new reality.

— Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026
Congress ultimately adopted this image in the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, with a bald eagle grasping 13 arrows in one foot, and an olive branch representing peace in the other.

— Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of grasping

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During the investigation, the sheriff's office said the 15-year-old girl was clutching her bag tightly and started to reach inside.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Wednesday, after beating the Houston Astros 7-3 to advance to the American League Division Series, Venable was standing inside a raucous clubhouse clutching a bottle of La Marca Prosecco.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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But securing sufficient training data for industrial models can represent a challenge.

— Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Patterson said on his campaign website his priorities include pushing for local rather than state control, strengthening criminal accountability, securing funding for infrastructure and protecting homeowners from rising property tax rates.

— Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of securing

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He was put into a 20-foot-by-20-foot holding cell with at least 25 other men.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
That machine set a global benchmark in January 2025 by holding plasma heated to 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) for 1,066 seconds.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

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