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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
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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
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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
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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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