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  1. latchingnoun

    A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.

Wikipedia

  1. latching

    Girls is an American comedy-drama television series created by Lena Dunham, who serves as executive producer along with Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner. The series premiered on HBO on April 15, 2012. Girls stars Dunham as Hannah Horvath, an aspiring writer in her 20s trying to navigate her personal and professional life in New York City after her parents discontinue their financial support. Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, and Alex Karpovsky co-star as Hannah's circle of friends, who are also trying to figure out their own lives and relationships. During the course of the series, 62 episodes of Girls aired over six seasons, between April 15, 2012, and April 16, 2017.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Latching

    of Latch

  2. Latchingnoun

    a loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of latching in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of latching in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of latching in a Sentence

  1. Ben Clark:

    If you want to run a great online campaign, you need every expert you can find, regardless of whether they worked at another shop or campaign, i've watched the Democratic Party bring in new talent every cycle and grow by celebrating new tech and new skills instead of latching on to an old defined playbook.

  2. Gabrielle Union:

    For women in Hollywood, when they’re coupling, everything is about the brand. Everything is about latching on to a rising star, so you can kick your heels up. That’s never been my story, ever, i make sure to let people know all of the hard work that’s gone into my career. I want people to know the work that it took to get through UCLA, that I had student loans and worked. I was eating Top Ramen and lived well below my means. Now that it’s time to get married to a man who happens to play basketball and has done well for himself, I want to make it clear that I have in no way hitched my wagon to his star. I have my own wagon and star.

  3. Brian Avery:

    But obviously, a series of failures occurred in order to arrive, in this instance, that were all preventable, given that certain factors were followed and one of the other final elements that should have been addressed is a secondary failsafe in the sense that a latching mechanism to the harness or a safety belt that would have been fixed to the occupant.

  4. Layne Millington:

    I think that's the reason that the students are latching on to this because when they've had a chance to stop, think, breathe and really kind of feel where they're at, they know how much stress they're under finally and now that they are aware of it, they can try to do something about it.

  5. Patrick Burland:

    I'm not surprised that the CCP's state media is desperately latching on to any false and misleading talking points to distract from their complicity in a genocide against the Uyghur minority, their intimidation of students, and suppression of dissidents around the world.

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