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- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The game's setting; the City is under a tight grip of a tyrant called Father.
Source: Video Game / Armored Core V - Poor Arya (although not one of the particularly unpragmatic, rigid Starks), by contrast, starts to lose her grip on her original "hero" setting by having to become as coldly pragmatic as humanly possible simply to survive.
Source: Pragmatic Hero -
Maximum Tune 3 pushes the envelope yet again with a third tuning point, bringing you to a maximum of 820 horsepower and redefining 700 HP as a "grip" setting.
Source: Rank Inflation
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Setting and Grip. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 09, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/grip/setting
Grip & Setting. N.p., 2016. Web. 09 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/grip/setting>.
Setting or Grip. 2016. Accessed August 09, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/grip/setting.
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