Clutching
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Another had an in-flight vulture clutching a piano in his claws, about to drop it on a crawling desert wayfarer to keep the guy from reaching a waterhole.
Source: Piano Drop - His insistence on clinging to the contract seems less like a villain scheming to hurt people and more like a broken, scared man desperately clutching at some semblance of order to keep himself sane.
Source: Designated Villain
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