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- verb Present participle of
grabble .
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Examples
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"One Jones whipped a woman to death for 'grabbling' a potato hill.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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"One Jones whipped a woman to death for 'grabbling' a potato hill.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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"One Jones whipped a woman to death for 'grabbling' a potato hill.
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839
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As Metro wrestles with a $189 million deficit in its operating budget, transit agencies across the country are also grabbling with declines in revenue.
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Tonight, just released, jailhouse tapes as she cries, grabbling for help, claiming she ` s innocent from her jail cell.
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NEILL: Well, those are very difficult questions that they're going to be grabbling with now and I think you've pinpointed it exactly.
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Those are the type of issues that folks are grabbling with in terms of coming out in support of Obama.
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So anybody who has any kind of addiction, and I think everybody has something that they are grabbling with, can read this book and really get inside the mind of an addict and learn the way out.
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Military generals have been grabbling with your very question for decades now-and I've been at the meetings where those questioms have been efforted to be answered.
"I'm dead. That sucks... But all the tears in the world aren't going to bring me back." Ann Althouse 2008
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OK, she as so evil today that she broke the internet.... nothing like a crushing deadline originally timed for a nanny day, but the client delayed her response to a non-nanny day, both of us working on the same document, a soul damagingly slow and faulty internet connection and 18 pounds of utter evil grabbling at your legs and keyboard.
Demon Girl in Da' House Zombie Mom 2007
hernesheir commented on the word grabbling
Harvesting young potato tubers by hand leaving the plant in place.
June 13, 2010