grappling

Engineers equipped the Webb with grappling handles and a refill port, allowing for the possibility of an uncrewed spacecraft to fly out and top off the tank with more fuel as needed.
The James Webb Space Telescope Is in Position—And Now We Wait|Jeffrey Kluger|January 26, 2022|Time
This is a game where, instead of using a grappling hook to pull yourself to a high walkway, you use a hole in space and time to pull the walkway to you.
Gifts for gamers: A guide for people who don’t play video games|Mike Epstein|November 12, 2021|Popular-Science
We read Thomas Piketty because we needed to understand these failures to have any hope of grappling with them.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years|Jedediah Purdy|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was something profoundly purging about finally grappling with it by putting it into words.
Ron Perlman's Secret Suicide Attempt|William O’Connor|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

When Booker assumed office, his half-a-million constituents were grappling with high unemployment and rampant poverty.
The Ugly Truth About Cory Booker, New Jersey’s Golden Boy|Olivia Nuzzi|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now Europe is grappling with its worst fear—the threat of an Ebola outbreak.
Ebola in Europe: What Went Wrong|Barbie Latza Nadeau|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Given the daunting problems the city is grappling with—massive debt and a severe pension crisis—can you blame them?
Could Rahm Lose to This Infamous Union Leader?|Kathleen Geier|July 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The time of hard grappling with the overwhelming fulness of actuality is over.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)|Richard Muther
Peter was moved not only because this was his son but because here was a fellow human being grappling with the common enemy.
The Boy Grew Older|Heywood Broun
Grappling for broken cable On the way from Misamis to Iligan, 87.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines|Florence Kimball Russel
And well for him her grasping handAnd grappling arm were strong!
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886|Ministry of Education
Already he was far away on a new line of thought, while the other was still grappling with his first surprise.
Through the Wall|Cleveland Moffett

British Dictionary definitions for grappling

grappling

/ (ˈɡræplɪŋ) /

noun

the act of gripping or seizing, as in wrestling

a hook used for securing something

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