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hand

[hand] / hænd /




NOUN
handwriting
Synonyms
NOUN
round of applause
Synonyms


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He made many of the props in the show by hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

They say they are investigating his failure to hand over his passports, but this does not classify him as a fugitive.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Ice cream melts down his daughter’s hand as he tells me about his family’s recent return to the country.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

In a police interview played at Winchester Crown Court, Joanne Young said she was restrained when she felt a hand on her wrist which she believed did not belong to her now ex-husband Philip Young.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

I lower my hand and lean against the wall for support.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The tech giant, as well as entertainment company Skydance, is asking swaths of their employees to raise their hands to walk out the door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“That tied our hands as judges,” Anderson, the former Shelby County judge, said in an interview.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

It’s a lot of talk about who is “all man” from a guy whose hands have been melting for the better part of a year.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

The historic result hands Lula, already the longest-serving democratically elected leader in Latin America's largest country, an unprecedented fourth term.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

With his hands, Cam framed her head, then leaned against her forehead, pushing her bright red glasses down her nose.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Airbus kept to its target of delivering a record 870 commercial aircraft this year, beating the 863 it handed over to airlines in 2019 before the Covid pandemic upended the industry.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

If that same friend handed me a list of toilets to scrub before returning the keys, however, I might reconsider the friendship.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Grammy-winning R&B star, 37, appeared Monday at Southwark Crown Court, where a judge handed down an eight-month sentence, suspended for a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

It was shortly after Russia’s retreat from Bucha that Ukraine’s government handed the case to Dulkay, a detective whose standard fare before the war was robbery, murder and organized crime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

One of the security officers handed me my duffel, and I swung it over my shoulder, the weight comfortingly familiar.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

But he is not expecting a warm welcome, despite handing over a squad that came so close to breaking the dominance of Celtic and his current club.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

They thought they were handing off a task.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

It’s hard to imagine handing your home over to another couple or family and settling into a smaller space.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Santos said that along the way he met some evangelicals who were there to support the pilgrims, "handing out water, fruit and medicine."

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

That is, a lot of people couldn’t actually afford to pay their mortgages the old-fashioned way, and so the lenders were dreaming up new instruments to justify handing them new money.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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