handle
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How do you handle coming from a culture with different money customs from those of your friends?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
People are going to say nasty things literally just to get a rise out of you, and it’s up to you to decide how you’re going to handle that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Rising fiscal deficits could make it harder for governments to meet their financial obligations and handle risks of the future.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The yard has doubled its workforce to 2,500 over the past two years to handle the extra demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
“I better go and handle this. Marcus doesn’t know what he’s in for—Tiana’s a biter!” he says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
She says she’s now mom’s full-time caregiver: She cooks, manages her medications, drives her to appointments and handles her finances and insurance paperwork.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
How Prince Mohammed handles this test will have consequences that stretch well beyond the kingdom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
In particular, birch tar would have helped them attach stone blades or points to wooden handles, a technique known as hafting.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
He said the company has changed how it handles such incidents.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
How they and their clients handled a volatile period will make for interesting reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It handled nearly 920,000 container units in August, 2% higher than a year earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
But chatbots and agents and other tasks may increasingly be handled on PCs and phones and smart glasses and whatever new gizmos Silicon Valley invents over the next decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
A similar nationwide analysis of paternal mortality is not currently possible because of limitations in how birth and death data are handled.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I think Mr. Terupt handled them the way he did because he was trying to teach you guys some personal responsibility.”
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
My sister started taking her to appointments, doing the grocery shopping and handling repairs, and then moved in.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Although effective, these substances can create difficulties involving safe handling, chemical waste, and the treatment of unwanted byproducts.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The following year Whittaker helped organise a walkout, in which some 20,000 staff protested against the company's handling of several issues, including what they felt was the rushed introduction of new technology.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
It requires a massive infrastructure investment, as well as legions of people handling construction, maintenance and repair of the physical plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Of course. I am more than capable of handling three bouncing kids.”
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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