as in control
the right or means to command or control others
the cult leader had such a death grip on his followers that all orders were carried out without the slightest objection
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The patented shooting yoke holds your rifle in a, well, death grip to give you repeatable shots and hands-free positioning in any shooting condition.
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T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
Infection of the peripheral nerves has reduced the length of the tendons and a concurrent loss of muscle strength has resulted in the tense, death grip seen in the last picture below.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
Only the oil industry’s death grip on the G.O.P. and the craven opportunism of West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema hold back the future.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
Control groups were infected with a separate fungus, Beauvaria bassiana, which also kills ants, but does not induce a death grip.
—Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2019
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T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
Infection of the peripheral nerves has reduced the length of the tendons and a concurrent loss of muscle strength has resulted in the tense, death grip seen in the last picture below.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
Only the oil industry’s death grip on the G.O.P. and the craven opportunism of West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema hold back the future.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
Control groups were infected with a separate fungus, Beauvaria bassiana, which also kills ants, but does not induce a death grip.
—Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2019
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