Clinging and Set

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Set and clinging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set" instead an adjective "Clinging".

Nearby Words: cling, clingy

Set adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.

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Clinging and set are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Clinging" instead an adjective "Set".

Nearby Words: setup, setting

The heavy braid hanging down her back had been transformed into a mysteriously knotted arrangement, clinging close to her head and set off with a green ... hat?

Source: Literature / Vorkosigan Saga aka: Komarr
Prince of Persia (2008) averts this when it comes to clothes; it is set in a windy desert, but everyone's clothes act realistically, like Elika's blouse shifting slightly but still clinging to her body.

Source: No Flow in CGI
In the end, she not only abandoned wealth and privilege, she also concealed her beautiful face (to avoid preferential treatment based on looks), erased her own memory to avoid clinging to the past, and deliberately set herself up as a feared outcast in a new school.

Source: Defector From Paradise

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