Example Sentences

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As demand for artificial intelligence skyrockets, AI companies have been grasping for solutions to flatten the steep cost curve of compute.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

And people have been grasping for the right term to describe that for a long time.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

“People have been grasping for how to make comparisons, but it is difficult.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2022

O’odham leaders have been grasping for ways of stymieing the project.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2020

Lysis and Menexenus, I am afraid that we have been grasping at a shadow only.

From Lysis by Jowett, Benjamin