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- verb Present participle of
cling .
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Examples
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Zell and the New Wave had a term for clinging to the principles underlying everything we did: "journalistic arrogance."
Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011
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Zell and the New Wave had a term for clinging to the principles underlying everything we did: "journalistic arrogance."
Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011
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A crystal mist of snow fell about them, softly, caressingly, wrapping them in clinging robes of white.
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Zell and the New Wave had a term for clinging to the principles underlying everything we did: "journalistic arrogance."
Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune Mark Heisler 2011
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In the warmth of the room it began to thaw and to break apart in clinging chunks.
Chapter VI 2010
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A crystal mist of snow fell about them, softly, caressingly, wrapping them in clinging robes of white.
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They are more interested in clinging to their tribal beliefs than anything.
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But the fight lasted so long that he had time to cry himself out and to experience a second burst of courage; and the end of the battle found him again clinging to a hind-leg and furiously growling between his teeth.
The Law of Meat 2010
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I'm a firm believer in clinging to as much childlike wonder as possible.
Boing Boing 2009
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I doubt that the students really dispute these claims; they are just being stubborn in clinging to naive relativism.
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