grabbed

verb

past tense of grab
as in snatched
to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly don't grab my arm like that

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Recent Examples of grabbed Maria, 32, grabbed her phone and ran down the stairs barefoot. — Philip Wang, Time, 29 June 2026 One of the men got out of the passenger seat, approached him aggressively, pushed him and grabbed him to try to move him out of the parking space, the affidavit said. — Sofia Saric june 30, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 Four days later, another young woman was making her way across Thornden Park when a man in a ski cap grabbed her by the neck and put a knife to her face. — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026 When Kennedy approached the rider and grabbed the handlebars to check whether the bike was registered, the rider refused to get off and allegedly tried to pull away. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026 This decision matters because all cellphone-carrying people can end up in tomorrow’s geofence, like all those who were unknowingly grabbed in the Chatrie search. — Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 30 June 2026 Maura Higgins, breakout star of The Traitors, grabbed her best tennis whites to ace the style assignment at Wimbledon 2026. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 July 2026 On Monday, Microsoft’s official Windows account tweeted a video of the XPS 13, which grabbed some of the spotlight at Taiwan’s Computex show earlier this month. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026 Finite State, which offers solutions for product security and software supply chain risk management, grabbed the 2026 IoT Industrial Solutions Award for the Product Security OS. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grabbed
  1. snatched
  2. seized
  3. caught
  4. captured
  5. landed
  6. got
  7. snagged
Verb
  • Your rich location history and device data get snatched up regularly in such fences by private companies; your present and past self travels through them constantly.
    — Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • But the fear of being snatched by ICE agents remains, Neel said.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026
Definition of snatched
Verb
  • Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who voted against the proposal in mid-June, voiced fears that the list of noncitizen voters would immediately be seized by federal immigration authorities.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, Russia’s military on Saturday claimed to have seized the city of Kostiantynivka, a key defensive hub in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of seized
Verb
  • While once exclusive to skateboarders for their ease of movement, thanks to a crop of particular designers’ spring/summer 2026 collections—from Dries Van Noten, to Khaite and TWP—they’ve caught the eye of the fashion set, too.
    — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 2 July 2026
  • The circular logic of it would be darkly comic if tens of thousands of livelihoods weren't caught in the middle.
    — Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of caught
Verb
  • The beautiful Grace Kelly captured the world's attention and imagination (and still does) for decades, but no one was more enamored by the actress than Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
    — Freya Drohan, InStyle, 30 June 2026
  • The exchange was captured by Redman’s body camera footage during a stop involving immigrants.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of captured
Verb
  • The plane landed upright in the water and was being towed back to a dock, the FDNY said.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Rafael Devers hit two homers, the latter being a 463-foot shot that landed in the upper deck.
    — Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
Definition of landed
Verb
  • Three players who logged heavy minutes in the two previous games -- Vlad Goldin, Jahmir Young and Trevor Keels -- got the night off.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026
  • And the Dodgers got another shot, with Pages on second to start the inning.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Definition of got
Verb
  • Curious who snagged their diploma and made the list?
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
  • That said, the PA6 was soaking wet, undried, and actually got snagged at one point, causing a layer line to appear.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026
Definition of snagged

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