handrail
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You’re either stuck to a vinyl-clad seat or grabbing up for a handrail and trying to direct your face away from the armpits to your left and right.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
She finished by painting the handrail bright blue and wrapping each stair with a Persian-style runner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Known as 'the handrail of the Mournes' as it helps guide hikers, it is made of natural granite stone using only traditional dry stone walling techniques.
From BBC ● May 4, 2025
The collection’s key motif was a curved red handrail designed for Milan’s 60-year-old red line by the late architect Franco Albini.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Boards have been lifted off the trestle floor itself, and the handrail has been replaced in spots.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Such changes will vary in cost and might mean adding a stairlift, better lighting, handrails, nonslip surfaces, a safer bathroom or even relocating a bedroom to the main floor.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
First, the hovering stairs and footbridges that navigate the property have no handrails, which are now required under current construction code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
The main residence has a grand staircase with custom brass handrails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Others, visibly distraught, squeezed onto crowded buses -- gripping handrails and bags -- or loaded onto lorries waiting to be spirited away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
Cushions that had still been up top, drapped on the handrails and boom, were knocked over the side into the water.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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