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  1. attachingverb

    Present participle of to attach.

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  1. Attaching

    of Attach

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of attaching in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of attaching in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of attaching in a Sentence

  1. Kurt Schmoke:

    You can imagine the county's residents don't want to be annexed into the city, if the city could have just reached out and expanded its boundaries by attaching itself to those who have moved out, we would have a larger tax base and we would have been able to address a lot of these social issues.

  2. Mike Strain:

    If the export facilities in the region are not back up and running at normal capacity by this time ... we will essentially be attaching a garden hose to a fire hydrant.

  3. George Sand:

    It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

  4. Sandra Bullock:

    I was making decisions based on fear, based on other people telling me what I should be doing, i was trying to please everybody. I was trying to be all those perky adjectives that people had been attaching to me. I was not trusting my own instincts. I needed to get away.

  5. Surfside Police Detective Marian Cruz:

    She noticed that the subject was attaching a cactus plant to the roof of his vehicle, this is not something Surfside Police see all the time.

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