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evenhanded

[ee-vuhn-han-did] / ˈi vənˈhæn dɪd /


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He has, in his first year at HHS, “significantly thinned out the sprawling $1.7 trillion department,” as an evenhanded report from the Associated Press put it.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

What “The Wolf War” also does—and a lot of nonfiction TV doesn’t—is approach its subject in an honestly evenhanded, objective manner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

It also boasts one of the most evenhanded depictions of queerness shown in superhero movies and TV series.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2025

Key documents, he said, “were written in an evenhanded, nonthreatening tone and employed words intended to persuade rather than intimidate.”

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2023

His curiosity about the English in India was great, and I satisfied it by praising, as a Moslem would, their politike, their evenhanded justice, and their good star.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir