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That’s no longer true: A limited number of companies now drive most of its returns as they fuel the buildout of artificial intelligence, and an even smaller handful “chip” in the rest — pun intended.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
There are a handful of exceptions when it will not apply.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
A crowd of press, supporters of Mangione, observers, and a handful of court staff members who had won a lottery to attend gathered in the packed courtroom.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The disconnect shows how Tehran has managed to squelch traffic through the crucial energy chokepoint with relatively little military force, only a handful of drone and missile attacks on ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He helps me up, and I scoop up a handful of mud and press it against his chest, leaving a brown handprint on his soaked T-shirt.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
"We call it rotting out," says Fererro, now wearing a white laboratory coat as he adds handfuls of seagrass to the Calshot tank.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
I have friends who choke down Greek yogurt by the bucketful, who eat handfuls of grilled chicken at a time, who dead lift their own body weight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
After a litany of stressful events, I couldn’t handle more handfuls of hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
On the menu today is spaghetti served with canned vegetables and tomato sauce and flavoured with generous handfuls of spices.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
And sure enough, by the time we’d crunched through the first sweet, salty handfuls, they were rounding the house into the backyard.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
