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In its first verdicts handed down last week, Baghdad's Karkh Criminal Court sentenced nine men to jail terms of up to 20 years.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 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

Davis offered no words of contrition ahead of the sentence being handed down, vowing only to appeal the guilty finding.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Cornell denies that this was the only punishment it handed down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

They are among the home cooks whipping up feasts from handed-down recipes and sharing those dishes with others.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022

"When I came to Maine, a colleague who was a native Mainer gave me her handed-down family recipes for how to collect, clean, and prepare Irish moss, as well as a pudding recipe."

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022

Brown says she is the keeper of handed-down family photos; she doesn’t know every person pictured here, but they’re all connected to her in some way, collected through time.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022

Everything she has was gifted, handed-down, or purchased second-hand.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2020

I knew how people thought about things, how people were, but it was a blow to see James playing into that handed-down way of looking at the world.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu