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In the past few years, at least 21 states have groped toward legislation on surrogacy, without success.

From Time Magazine Archive

And because the Supreme Court has yet to clarify Escobedo with any new decision, some 27 lower courts have groped for the right interpretation.

From Time Magazine Archive

To this dark crypt thousands of reverent visitors have groped 79 their way.

From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by Faris, John T. (John Thomson)

The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands.

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles

The important point in all this is that this old system, so self-sufficient and self-satisfied, should have groped its way toward a divine sympathizer in human form, a living and helpful god among men.

From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Ellinwood, Frank F.