Definitions for clinging
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1. Clinging

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of clinging in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of clinging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of clinging in a Sentence

1. Gregory Benford - Timescape:

   There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

2. Ben Emmerson:

   It was a crass and clumsy gesture from an increasingly isolated tin pot despot, a morally deranged authoritarian who was at that very moment clinging desperately onto political power in the face of international sanctions and a rising chorus of international condemnation, after years of negotiation and appeasement, the world has lost its patience now with Mr Putin's judo politics and his cringing hard-man photo opportunities.

3. Rula Nasr-Mazzawi:

   The parties stopped working for the people. They are just clinging onto their own seats and their own power.

4. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

5. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall:

   On December 22, 1991, Bill Lynn was wrapping Christmas gifts for Bill Lynn grandchildren when Bill Lynn was ambushed outside Bill Lynn home, slashed and stabbed with a sword dozens of times, bill Lynn killer has dodged his death sentence for the better part of three decades by employing much the same strategy he has pursued tonight -- desperately clinging to legal maneuverings to avoid facing the consequences of his heinous crime.

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