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The 95th Oscars were filled with many memorable moments – as the most notable celebrated ceremony in film returned this year, with attempts to move on from Will Smith open-handedly slapping Chris Rock on live TV in 2022.

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She says "success" in the US is judged not only by how much an individual makes but also by how open-handedly they give away.

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In the cane-brakes on both sides of the lower Mississippi I have hunted bear in company with the hard-riding, straight-shooting planters of the country lying behind the levees—and a gamer, more open-handedly hospitable set of men can nowhere be found.

Then she had heard from Dashwood of the change in his situation, and that had really from one moment to the other made her think sympathetically of his preoccupations—led her open-handedly to drop her own.

When she gave, it was open-handedly, with no reservation; where she loved or hated, it was unreservedly; if she gave a dance it would be a dance for the countryside to remember.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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