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- noun Plural form of
reaching .
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Examples
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United States and Russia are completing negotiations on the farthest-reachings arms control treaty in nearly two decades.
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Give me fever dreams followed by sweaty chills with furtive reachings for the wedding present mixing bowl slash throw-up bowl.
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It has done it: for, with violent reachings, having taken enough to make me sick, and not enough water to carry it off, I presently looked as if I had kept my bed a fortnight.
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Then there would be churning froths, and blood swirling up, and reachings out, graspings with nothing to grasp, and then we would see bodies drawn under the water.
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_ What invocations of the saints, what heart-groping, what reachings after the better parts of women!
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Her two aunts, that she had always lived with, had been everything to her -- they had indulged her, had made her pretty frocks, had never tried, in any way, to block the reachings of her personality.
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All these reachings out in new directions, deceive the unwary.
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It is easier to understand what he meant if one thinks how definitely Hardy belongs to his age, the latter nineteenth century, in spite of his reachings forward.
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All these conjectures and confidences and reachings through the shadows are just a testimony that few are content to go on without some form of religion or other.
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We passed away from London in the end, got out beyond the last tentative reachings of the speculative builder, into country lane-ways.
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