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hand

[hand] / hænd /




NOUN
handwriting
Synonyms
NOUN
round of applause
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With each sector ETF in hand, we then calculated the average and volatility of returns over increasing, flat and decreasing interest-rate cycles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Giuliani said that he and other security planners had been "planning with one hand tied behind our back" due to the shutdown, saying "we are still plugging a few of those holes".

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Alice, on the other hand, lets it all out, leaving Walker feeling “light as a feather. Everything that woman felt went down the lens, so in the end, I actually felt good.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Pulte’s father, Mark, like others of the patriarch’s progeny, has kept a hand in the grandfather’s work, including funding religious charities with Fellowship ties.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

Just outside the main gate, a man—filthy with mud, wearing tattered clothing —walks up to him, hand outstretched.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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