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Also, latch on to.

Get hold of, grasp; also, understand, grasp mentally. For example, They latched onto a fortune in the fur trade, or Carol quickly latched on to how the sewing machine works. [c. 1930]

Attach oneself to, join in with, as in Rob didn't know the way so he latched on to one of the older children. [c. 1930]

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How to use latch onto in a sentence

Which is necessary because the characters he encounters on his journey are often way too kooky—and, well, Guest-ian—to latch onto.
‘Family Tree’ Brings Christopher Guest’s Mockumentary Style to HBO|Jace Lacob|May 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Instead, we latch onto the number and use that as a symbol of everything else.
Is the GDP Report Really Important?|Zachary Karabell|July 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Conservatives latch onto issues that involve bad guys with big guns.
Stop the Terror Hysteria|Peter Beinart|January 23, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Of course, Big Pharma was only too happy to latch onto the early results as well.
How Science Screwed My Kids|Grace Poole|April 1, 2009|DAILY BEAST

With books, it is the buzz and name notoriety that publishers latch onto.
Bush Memoir Will Be a Hit|Ronald Goldfarb|November 11, 2008|DAILY BEAST

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