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clung

[kluhng]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of cling.



clung

/ klʌŋ /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of cling

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"People started shouting. I was up to my neck in water. I clung to a piece of wood and prayed," Mpambi remembered.

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Once youth sports returned, I clung to the routine and banality that came with it.

For all his personal failings, Bill Clinton has always clung to the promise of forgiveness and the process of atonement.

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The incident happened after federal agents tried taking the woman's husband into custody as she and her daughter clung on to him, CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reported.

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The UK and France have clung to the idea that two separate states – Israeli and Palestinian – are the solution to the conflict here, even as Palestinian territory was taken, and Palestinian institutions undermined.

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