handicap
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Shah admits that Uncle Sam could contribute to volatility, as markets try to handicap these potential worries.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Obviousness is this film’s handicap — and the main joke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
His golf handicap just went up in my book.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Across the NBA, teams are having to play the most important games of the season with a serious handicap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
He played a lovely game of billiards and with the handicap I was only four ahead at fifty.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
As far as handicaps go, if you are sweeping your putts, you’re only hurting yourself and no one else…keep it enjoyable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
It also created a ranking system, Spindex, with the hopes of making it a ratings scale similar to golf handicaps.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
But he couldn’t go much higher with the handicaps he faced at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
Administrators admit the system is open to abuse and some players artificially manipulate handicaps to improve their chances of winning amateur competitions.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025
Finally a speaker came forward and spoke of Chicago’s South Side, its Negro population, their sufferings, and handicaps, linking all that, also, to the world struggle.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Yet the House is down to a minuscule majority, and Senate Republicans are handicapped by the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham and the hospitalization of Sen. Mitch McConnell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Jagwar looks a very fairly handicapped horse, but opinion seems completely split on him.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
Byron Callan, a defense analyst at Washington, D.C.–based Capital Alpha Partners, which advises investors on government policy matters, has handicapped five possible outcomes in Iran.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
Some clearly display handicapped plaques as they go to the store.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2025
Dad was waiting for us, wearing a tan suit, standing in a handicapped parking spot typing away on his handheld.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
That’s a sharp reversal from the past two years, when investors were handicapping how quickly the Fed would be cutting rates despite stubborn inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The new Siri is proving to be difficult because Apple came into the AI race by handicapping itself.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
Though, it should be said, at this point all that election handicapping is nothing more than speculation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Aston Martin locked out the back row of the grid in Belgium just a week ago, the car's high drag handicapping it on the long, high-speed sections at Spa-Francorchamps.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
Arndt, Paul, on handicapping of Germany because of meagreness of colonial possessions, 107.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
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