latching
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of latching
Example Sentences
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There is a contingent of Mexicans who find the whole thing a bit nauseating, another example of businesses latching onto and capitalizing on an internet meme.
But it was only a few years ago, when online communities of so-called incels started latching onto evolutionary psychology’s story of close relationships that he began to see the EvoScript as dangerous.
From Los Angeles Times
The virus moves along the surface, latching onto one molecule after another, until it arrives at a site rich in these receptors.
From Science Daily
All of that leaves investors latching onto Williams’s language—not because it is definitive, but because it is one of the few available signals before the Fed falls silent.
From Barron's
All of that leaves investors latching onto Williams’s language—not because it is definitive, but because it is one of the few available signals before the Fed falls silent.
From Barron's
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