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- noun Plural form of
grasper .
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Examples
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The other party which was at this time in power, as I have said, was named _Raspanti_, which is to say graspers, and of them Dino della Rocca was head.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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For a while, I vainly imagined that The Post had killed "Real Housewives" by exposing its allegedly glamorous stars as bankrupt graspers.
Reality TV is affecting reality, creating a weird world for gossip writers 2010
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Sinewy graspers now emerged from the floor of the cell, positioning the frozen water bear in an active pose as if it had been caught midleap with its specialized tail.
The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010
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Below the confluence of antennae an array of hooked claws and bristled graspers flexed in a steady rhythm.
The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010
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The monster reared up, cocking its powerful graspers back.
The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010
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Since profit-driven corporations are now people, too -- corporations who cut corners to protect their own profits, and end up polluting the waters upon which life on earth depends top my current list of self-graspers.
Alison Rose Levy: The Dalai Lama Does Not Exist and Neither Do I 2010
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One employs a thermoelectric phenomenon, called the Peltier effect, to cool the graspers handling the cloth (and thus the cloth itself) well below zero by passing current through them …
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Amplified Bible: unrighteous and wrongdoers; impure and immoral, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuality, cheats swindlers and thieves, greedy graspers, drunkards, revilers and slanderers, extortioners and robbers
The Volokh Conspiracy » Texas megachurch refuses to bury gay veteran: 2007
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The true straw graspers tell me they are big readers.
Archive 2006-03-26 Miss Snark 2006
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Many of the latter group of pint graspers had their origins in the United Kingdom.
Well, Fuck Me: The Swearing Festival Report : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006
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