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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
grasp .
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Examples
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Mysteriously, something the FIA president seems never to have grasped is that people do not care to be patronised.
Archive 2009-06-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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What many liberals haven't grasped is the number of "insured," will dramatically outnumber the available doctors and facilities .... and wait times, quailty of service and competency in medical decisions will suffer.
First on the CNN Ticker: RNC slams Obama in first TV ad 2009
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Mysteriously, something the FIA president seems never to have grasped is that people do not care to be patronised.
Max runs out of headroom? Gordon McCabe 2009
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Shchukin grasped at once that Nymph and Satyr was an affront to decency and morals, which only increased his impatience to possess it.
My Kind of Collector 2009
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Shchukin grasped at once that Nymph and Satyr was an affront to decency and morals, which only increased his impatience to possess it.
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Not one word could he be persuaded to utter; yet the flitting conscious light of his eyes showed that his ears heard and his brain grasped every question put to him.
SEMPER IDEM 2010
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I think what Whitely hasn't grasped is that for many young people the quality of your life is defined and determined by the brands in it.
Archive 2004-09-12 Laban 2004
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Instantly, Archie's sensitive brain grasped the whole situation.
The Shagganappi 1913
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In a second his brain grasped the fact that the bridge had been cut away on purpose.
The Shagganappi 1913
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Not one word could he be persuaded to utter; yet the flitting conscious light of his eyes showed that his ears heard and his brain grasped every question put to him.
Semper Idem 1911
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