"clinging" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "The mind […] ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings, and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.",
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          "text": "Yes, very clinging; my cousin has a delightful figure, and can stand it.",
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          "text": "He became more clinging, more mischievous and more difficult.",
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          "ref": "2016, Ferenc Szabadváry, R. Belcher, L. Gordon, History of Analytical Chemistry, page 15:",
          "text": "It is a greyish white, high melting metal, very clinging, not very ductile and with difficulty malleable.",
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          "text": "He became more clinging, more mischievous and more difficult.",
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