hasp

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Verb
  • John Carter was the baby of that group, the green rookie whose learning in the trenches gave the audience a perspective to latch onto.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2025
  • For much of the season, Coop slides open unlocked doors or follows YouTube tutorials when locks are actually latched.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Begin by clamping at the root and work your way down the hair shaft in one-to-two-inch sections, holding each for just a few seconds, to achieve the look.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The speakers themselves have basic spring clip terminals that clamp onto the bare ends of the wire.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Both were seen visually emotional, clasping their faces at times.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
  • With her hands clasped to the sides of her face, the well-to-do woman is said to have demonstrated her request by lifting the corners of her mouth and cheeks.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Ivar hit a great moonsault for a nearfall, but New Day then isolated Ivar and won a record 11th tag team title as Woods pinned Erik with help from Kingston.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But that narrative has gained steam in recent weeks as Democrats try to pin the blame for November’s loss on Biden.
    Amie Parnes, The Hill, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Their love interests also showcase the differences between the identical twins: Smoke’s former love is Annie (a wise, raw, and riveting Wunmi Mosaku), a spiritual medicine woman still reeling from the grief of losing their infant child, whose potions and hoodoo knowledge come in handy later.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 18 Apr. 2025
  • With a textured and riveted, shiny exterior, this sneaker is almost like jewelry for your foot, and can take you from sunup to sundown, when worn with office essentials like blazers, button downs, and trousers, to floaty dresses, for a more laid back approach.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Will they be shackled and hooded, shuffled off to some far-away detention center and then flown to a foreign country willing to warehouse America’s politically undesirables for a hefty fee?
    Chris Brennan, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Next, he was taken to an airport, shackled, and flown to a detention facility in Alexandria, Louisiana.
    Eric Levenson and Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But earnest young people with babies strapped to their chests began to move in all around.
    Murr Brewster, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Developed by Starner’s team at Georgia Tech, CHAT involves something that looks a little like a Ghostbusters costume: a pack worn on a harness on a diver’s chest recognizes audio while a unit strapped to the forearm plays sounds.
    Melissa Hobson, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In a virtuosic struggle, Chee almost gets Reynolds, whose dark hood seems to have been stapled onto his head, because no matter how much tackling and wrestling and shooting at Chee is able to manage, the hood never lifts an inch above his eyes.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Jekyll staples The Wharf and Tortuga Jack’s both appear amongst the 10 Best Beach Bars, as voted by readers.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Hasp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hasp. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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