handicap

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

The government's decision to expand the scheme to include a further 3,000 companies was welcomed by business groups who have long identified high energy costs as a major handicap for UK business.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

I see Pop parked in the handicap zone.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

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

More than 40% of the district’s voters are Democrats, while 28.3% are Republicans and 23.3% registered as having no party preference, according to the nonpartisan California Target Book, which handicaps congressional races.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

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

After that they created handicaps, like racing with no arms or hopping across the width of the shallow end on one foot.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

Hoy’s wife, Kathleen, said her late husband had medical issues, used handicapped parking and though he would sometimes “yell at traffic” she had never known him to draw his weapon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Efoghe said the Nigerian embassy in Tripoli was "handicapped" and could not intervene because of the political situation.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024

Cognitive fluency and watery judicial eyes aside, Arriaga and I are still handicapped without a PC.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2024

Senate and other offices—it was certainly handicapped, at least in the short term, by Kennedy’s brazen dissemination of inside information.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

The tracks contend that because they give you minimal handicapping information, and that you are not betting against the house but other players, it’s a game of skill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

Three smart financial thinkers recently did some handicapping for us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 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

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

It has a shrewd trick of grafting sorrows on our joys, and of handicapping success with discomfiting conditions.

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson