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at hand

adverb as in within reach

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Example Sentences

The near-at-hand field and pasture that sloped toward it were gemmed with dew.

The argentic plate is always ready-at-hand, and the working of it is simplicity itself.

I had ransacked the far-off, and had neglected the near-at-hand, as we are so apt to do.

In support of this proposition volumes might be written; but only a brief array of near-at-hand evidence will be here presented.

I was not in the least cast down at this long-range estimate, since I had become quite used to close-at-hand ridicule.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to at hand, such as: accessible, close, imminent, impending, and nearby.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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