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Example Sentences
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He started with roughly $2,000 spread across a handful of low-cost ETFs, and has scaled up from there.
The backstop mechanism, which provides funding at times of extreme financial stress, is currently only available to a handful of central banks.
From Barron's
A handful of companies in AI-connected fields, such as semiconductors and data-center equipment, now sport market capitalizations in the tens of billions of dollars despite having relatively modest profits or none at all.
That’s why, Kritzman and Turkington find, investing in only a handful of the biggest companies has “essentially the same” riskiness as owning all the rest of the stocks in the S&P 500 combined.
The person raised a gloved hand to block the lens before grabbing what appeared to be a handful of brush to further block the camera.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.