A groping effort to understand.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a groping scrutiny; a groping expression.    From Dictionary.com. 

The closest you get to interactive stalking is the train groping part of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [RapeLay: The Response] Reference

From her second home in Rome, Inverardi recalled groping her way back into the house to grab a purse and went back outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines] Reference

It was the only fundamentally democratic party while the National Party and ANC could be described as groping towards democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Are we just kind of groping around when reviewing comics?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everyone’s A Critic: An interview with Douglas Wolk, Part the first] Reference

It felt more like a good old fashioned "groping" than a security check.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shana Sosin: What Are They Afraid Of?] Reference

I look at that image, and I find it creepy that he's "groping" the breast of a cut-out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference

He's kind of groping to actually feel his own his own head, I mean, as if he were trying to figure out what his mental essence is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology] Reference

Letterman, Kimmel & Fallon on "groping" Massa - Countdown.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to TV Today] Reference

Still, "groping" is a well established social phenomenon in Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student Operated Press] Reference

Kristen Stewart was banned from 'groping' Dakota Fanning when they made out for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starpulse Entertainment News] Reference

HAVING only just survived the Chris Smith Christmas party "groping" episode, radio bosses at.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

1927 or 1928; they felt he was constantly repeating his gestures of emotional "groping" -- what he had called in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life] Reference

As his friend walked over to a sofa to retrieve his coat, a female customer began "groping" his friend, Graffeo said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bladewire - Washington Blade] Reference

Yes, that's the word we were groping for, if 'groping' isn't underwear hoedown explicit or pseudo-violent language whoopie biscuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sadly, No!] Reference

And Edward never could’ve handle that kind of groping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight Lexicon » Deleted Scene: Edward’s Bedroom Surprise] Reference

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Letterman, Kimmel & Fallon on "groping" Massa.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to TV Today] Reference

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Letterman, Kimmel & Fallon on "groping" Massa - Countdown.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to TV Today] Reference

Imperfect as the world is, I do think we’re at least kind of groping in the right direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bit-O-Stead « educating alice] Reference

"groping" a sleeping subordinate, of a shipmate of Massa's waking up "to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkel him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ Politics]

Clinton is, as usual, groping for a middle course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peering Over The Cliff] Reference

Ahnold + Old CW: Serial groping and admiring Hitler are political death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conventional Wisdom] Reference

But U.S. agencies are still groping for a way to join the business spy war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Barn Door] Reference

Surveying the damage, leaders across the Americas are now groping for alternatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollars And Discontent] Reference

But now investigators are groping with uncertainty, asking: Who else is still out there?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road To September 11] Reference

At times Albright seemed to be groping for replies, possibly because there are no easy ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did Saddam Blink?] Reference

But by the end of the week, as the ultimatum loomed, Iraq seemed to be groping for a way out.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ultimatum For Saddam] Reference

"" He's been groping around for something big to do, '' said Porter Bibb, a Turner biographer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Ted Gave It Away] Reference

His performance left even partisan adversaries and smash-mouth cable pundits groping for superlatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Eyes The Future] Reference

No roots: It's understandable that, like Reed, some ex-captives are left rootless and groping for a role in life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even When It's Over It Isn't Over] Reference

At a time when media moguls are groping to see the digital future, having Jobs as a guide would be invaluable to Disney.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Incredible Marriage?] Reference

There are people just groping and digging and garbage canning and going to whatever ends, knocking on doors of neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  ['He's Been Through A Lot'] Reference

But it is one of the ways that the administration is groping for a non-military solution to a brutally difficult predicament.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Radioactive Dilemma] Reference

The Hu doctrine is for each country to find its own path -- "crossing the river by groping the stones," to quote a Chinese proverb.    From Wordnik.com.  [War of Wills] Reference