latch onto

“It’s really hard to build an impenetrable wall against our fears, but you don’t have to latch onto those fears and dwell on them either,” he added.

“Netflix was smart to latch onto these Christmas games and having the halftime show certainly couldn’t have hurt.”

A lot of people are like Mangione in this regard, ready to latch onto random explanations for their discontent, with little regard to whether it's factual or logical.

On the other hand, the viruses in birds, cattle, and people so far show no signs of the 226L hemagglutinin mutation that would allow H5N1 to better latch onto human receptors.

They then examined the hemagglutinin proteins, or spikes, on the outer surface of the virus, since those enable it to latch onto the cell membrane of its host.