latch onto

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latch onto someone/something

to become closely connected to someone or something. I knew she would be perfect in the film, so I latched onto her like a magnet. More and more countries latched onto computer technology as an important tool for development.

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A fun weapon is the grappling hook, which Rico can use to latch onto any vehicle -- land, sea or air. 1980S MACHO FLICKS LIVE ON IN THIS GAME by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) When the meeting finally is adjourned, you'd better make a run for it, because The Extender will latch onto one unsuspecting co-worker and turn the walk back to the cubicles into the dreaded "moving meeting. Let's call a meeting and talk about the problems we see at our ... by Bazer, Mark / Los Angeles Business Journal Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a coating process to make sponge-like silica latch onto toxic metals in water. Nanotechnology is getting real: after years of hype, it is entering ... by Porod, Wolfgang / Chief Executive (U.S.) More results

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A fun weapon is the grappling hook, which Rico can use to latch onto any vehicle -- land, sea or air.

1980S MACHO FLICKS LIVE ON IN THIS GAME by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

When the meeting finally is adjourned, you'd better make a run for it, because The Extender will latch onto one unsuspecting co-worker and turn the walk back to the cubicles into the dreaded "moving meeting.

Let's call a meeting and talk about the problems we see at our ... by Bazer, Mark / Los Angeles Business Journal

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a coating process to make sponge-like silica latch onto toxic metals in water.

Nanotechnology is getting real: after years of hype, it is entering ... by Porod, Wolfgang / Chief Executive (U.S.)

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