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{
"Han Y\u00fc":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"768\u2013824 Han Wen-kung Chinese poet, essayist, and philosopher":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4n-\u02c8y\u00fc"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132554",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hanis":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Kusan people on the shores of the Coos river and Coos Bay, Oregon":[],
": a member of the Hanis people":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4n\u0259\u0307s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124700",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hanko":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"town and port of southwestern Finland on Hanko (Hang\u00f6) Peninsula in the Baltic Sea southeast of Turku":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ha\u014b-\u02cck\u022f"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213805",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Hankow":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"former city in east central China \u2014 see wuhan":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8k\u014d",
"\u02c8h\u00e4n-\u02c8k\u014d",
"\u02c8ha\u014b-\u02c8kau\u0307"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
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"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Hankul":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the alphabet of 24, formerly 25, characters invented in the 15th century in which Korean is usually written":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Korean":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u00e4\u014b\u02cck\u00fcl"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102103",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hanna":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Marcus Alonzo 1837\u20131904 Mark American businessman and politician":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ha-n\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111506",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hansen":{
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"definitions":{
"Lars Peter 1952\u2013 American economist":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8han(t)-s\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125034",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hansen's disease":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": leprosy":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8han(t)-s\u0259nz-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Armauer Hansen \u20201912 Norwegian physician":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1938, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-115731"
},
"Hanson":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Howard 1896\u20131981 American composer":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8han(t)-s\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104946",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hansson":{
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"definitions":{
"Per Albin 1885\u20131946 Swedish statesman":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8han(t)-s\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233416",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Hanswurst":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a broadly farcical or burlesque stock character common in German comedy in the 16th to the 18th centuries":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"German, from Low German Hansworst , literally, Jack sausage":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)h\u00e4n(t)s\u00a6vu\u0307(\u0259)rst"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090426",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hantik":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Bisayan people inhabiting western Panay, Philippines":[],
": a member of such people":[],
": an Austronesian language of the Hantik people that is sometimes considered a dialect of Bisayan":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"native name on Panay":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00e4n\u2027\u02cct\u0113k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184131",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Hants":{
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"definitions":{
"Hampshire":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174550",
"type":[
"abbreviation"
]
},
"Hanukkah":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an 8-day Jewish holiday beginning on the 25th of Kislev and commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem after its defilement by Antiochus of Syria":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u1e35\u00e4-",
"\u02c8h\u00e4-n\u0259-k\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Hebrew \u1e25\u0103nukk\u0101h dedication":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1843, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-132521"
},
"hand":{
"antonyms":[
"deliver",
"feed",
"furnish",
"give",
"hand over",
"provide",
"supply"
],
"definitions":{
"(Billings) Learned 1872\u20131961 American jurist":[],
": a branched rootstock of ginger":[],
": a bunch of large leaves (as of tobacco) tied together usually with another leaf":[],
": a character \u261e used to direct particular attention (as to a note or paragraph) : fist , index":[],
": a cluster of bananas developed from a single flower group":[],
": a member of a ship's crew":[
"All hands on deck!"
],
": a part serving the function of or resembling a hand: such as":[],
": a person employed at manual labor or general tasks":[
"a ranch hand"
],
": a person skilled in a particular action or pursuit":[
"a great hand at carpentry"
],
": a person who performs or executes a particular work":[
"two portraits by the same hand"
],
": a player in a card game or board game":[],
": a pledge especially of betrothal or bestowal in marriage":[
"He asked for her hand in marriage."
],
": a punch made with a specified hand":[
"knocked him out with a good right hand"
],
": a round of applause":[
"Let's give them a big hand ."
],
": a single round in a game":[
"lost the first hand but won the next two"
],
": a specialist or veteran in a usually designated activity or region":[
"a Latin America hand"
],
": a unit of measure equal to 4 inches (10.2 centimeters) used especially for the height of horses":[
"a horse that is 15 hands high"
],
": about to appear : pending":[
"There was trouble on hand ."
],
": an indicator or pointer on a dial":[
"the hands of a clock"
],
": an instrumental part":[
"had a hand in the victory"
],
": assistance or aid especially involving physical effort":[
"lend a hand"
],
": by or through the action of":[
"suffering at the hands of a cruel dictator"
],
": control , supervision":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural left the matter in her hands"
],
": currently receiving or deserving attention":[
"the business at hand"
],
": done with : finished":[],
": everywhere":[
"could hear scurrying noises on all hands"
],
": from one individual directly to another":[
"deliver the document by hand"
],
": furl":[
"hand the sail"
],
": handiwork , doings":[
"the hand of vandals"
],
": in attendance : present":[
"A priest was on hand to console them."
],
": in one's possession or care":[
"too much time on my hands"
],
": in one's possession or control":[
"had matters well in hand",
"with money in hand"
],
": in preparation":[
"a new play in hand"
],
": in present possession or readily available":[
"kept supplies on hand"
],
": into possession":[
"The letter \u2026 has come to hand \u2026",
"\u2014 George Washington"
],
": near in time or place : within reach":[
"use whatever ingredients are at hand"
],
": one of two sides or aspects of an issue or argument":[
"On the one hand we can appeal for peace, and on the other, declare war."
],
": out of control":[
"They let the situation get out of hand ."
],
": participation , interest":[
"had no hand in the decision"
],
": personal possession":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural The documents fell into the hands of the enemy."
],
": side , direction":[
"soldiers fighting on either hand"
],
": signature":[],
": skill , ability":[
"tried her hand at sailing"
],
": something resembling a hand: such as":[],
": style of execution : workmanship":[
"the hand of a master"
],
": style of penmanship : handwriting":[
"wrote in a fancy hand"
],
": the cards or pieces held by a player":[
"studied her hand"
],
": the chela of a crustacean":[],
": the feel of or tactile reaction to something (such as silk or leather)":[],
": the force or solidity of one's position (as in negotiations)":[
"trying to strengthen their hand"
],
": the forelimb segment (such as the terminal section of a bird's wing) of a vertebrate higher than the fishes that corresponds to the hand irrespective of its form or functional specialization":[],
": the hind foot of an ape":[],
": the terminal part of the vertebrate forelimb when modified (as in humans) as a grasping organ : the body part at the end of the arm of a human, ape, or monkey":[
"holding a pair of scissors in his hand",
"She put her hands over her eyes."
],
": to give credit to : concede the excellence of":[
"I have to hand it to him. He did a wonderful job."
],
": to give, pass, or transmit with the hand":[
"hand a letter to her"
],
": to lead, guide, or assist with the hand":[
"hand a lady into a bus"
],
": to present or provide with":[
"handed him a surprise"
],
": under consideration":[
"took the matter in hand"
],
": with the hands":[
"fruit eaten out of hand"
],
": with the hands or a hand-worked implement (such as a tool or pen) rather than with a machine":[],
": with the hands rather than by machine":[
"hand stitched"
],
": within reach":[
"weapons ready to hand"
],
": worker , employee":[
"employed over a hundred hands"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"These gloves will keep your hands warm.",
"She put her hands over her eyes.",
"He sat quietly with his hands folded in his lap.",
"Do you need a hand ",
"Verb",
"was happy to hand her grandmother's cookie recipes to the parish ladies to put in their cookbook",
"the clerk handed her the receipt",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Their approach: wait by the hospital doors of the hospital at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for the shift change, free coffee and hot chocolate in hand . \u2014 Phil Wahba, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"With an eye cream or a serum in hand , opt for these reusable Dieux eye masks, designed to increase the efficacy of your favorite eye cream or serum. \u2014 Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022",
"With a list of these projects and technologies in hand , start exploring a path to create programs that build both momentum and efficiency. \u2014 David Nugent, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Charles\u2019s apartment, prompting Mabel and Oliver to scurry into the bedroom with the painting in hand . \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 28 June 2022",
"Farmers grew up with shovel in hand ready to cut drainage ditches. \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Fans attending the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic will have numerous options for watching Will Zalatoris, Tony Finau and others with a cold drink in hand . \u2014 Mason Young, Detroit Free Press , 27 June 2022",
"Cooler temperatures, a slight breeze, and maybe a refreshing cocktail in hand ",
"With a device in hand , police can just look through the browser and text messages directly. \u2014 Heather Kelly, Tatum Hunter, Danielle Abril, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley then took to the stage to hand a formal proclamation recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"If additional research bears out the findings, the gum could join face masks and hand sanitizer in the arsenal for curbing the virus\u2019s spread. \u2014 Abdullah Iqbal, Scientific American , 24 Feb. 2022",
"However, Guinness World Records is not ready to hand the title over quite yet. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"Johnson spokeswoman Alexa Henning downplayed the texts after they were publicly revealed for the first time during the committee\u2019s hearing in Washington, but did not deny that Johnson had wanted to hand -deliver the slate of fake electors to Pence. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"How the president and his briefcase-toting brigands sought to pressure the Justice Department and election officials around the country to ignore those results and hand the president the second term that voters refused him. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"Cadillac plans to hand -build just 500 examples of the sedan at its parent company General Motors\u2019 Global Technical Center in southeast Michigan starting next year. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 28 June 2022",
"Most savvy people would not hand money to a financial advisor that acted merely as a transactional clearing house. \u2014 Regina Hoshimi, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Former President Donald Trump's campaign, the House Jan. 6 committee has detailed, wanted Pence to use the fake Trump electors to halt or at least delay certifying President Biden's electoral victory and eventually hand the election to Trump. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"And putting money in people\u2019s pockets goes hand -in-hand with social distancing policies, by defraying some of the costs of closing non-essential businesses, which in turn threatens the reliable paychecks of thousands of workers. \u2014 Ben Adler, The New Republic , 13 Apr. 2020",
"The two phenomena go hand -in-hand: The Arctic Oscillation is positive because the polar vortex is strong. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 19 Feb. 2020",
"The developments come a day after the managers hand -delivered the articles of impeachment, adopted by the House in December, to the Senate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signed them in a historic engrossment ceremony. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Jan. 2020",
"One shop sold stuffed toys made to look hand -woven, as if a wry old local was out back sewing Ewok dolls. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Sep. 2019",
"His vision is carried on by three generations of his family who hand -pick grapes to make homemade wine. \u2014 Verna Gates, al , 19 Sep. 2019",
"Food that\u2019s healthy for people and healthy for the environment go hand -in-hand. \u2014 Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Oct. 2019",
"For the next election, all of L.A. County will be ditching the previous system where voters hand -marked ballots for a system where computers will aid in the marking process. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Half the fun is perusing the lengthy cocktail list, designed to look hand -scrawled and presented in a small binder. \u2014 Paul Hodgins, Daily Pilot , 25 Sep. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3b":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German hant hand":"Noun, Verb, and Adverb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hand"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"aspect",
"facet",
"phase",
"side"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230809",
"type":[
"adverb",
"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hand composition":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the work of a hand compositor":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115140",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand compositor":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one that sets type by hand especially as contrasted with a typesetting-machine keyboard operator":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194703",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand cream":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a liquid that is rubbed onto hands":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080225",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand gel":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a quick-drying, gelatinous cleanser containing primarily alcohol (such as ethanol or isopropyl alcohol) that is rubbed on the hands especially to kill many bacteria and viruses":[
"If you're wondering whether that sanitizing hand gel really does you any good, a new report in Pediatrics says yes. In a five-month study of 292 Boston-area families, those who regularly rubbed on the alcohol-based gels had a 59% reduced risk of gastrointestinal infections.",
"\u2014 Time",
"\u2026 the CDC is encouraging health-care professionals to switch to fast-acting, more effective alcohol-based hand gels in an effort to minimize the spread of hospital-acquired infections.",
"\u2014 Lucy Atkinson"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1990, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182459"
},
"hand glass":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small mirror with a handle":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1832, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204011",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand grenade":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a grenade designed to be thrown by hand":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184725",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand job":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an act of stimulating the genitals manually usually to orgasm":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1939, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183445",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand labor":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": manual labor as distinct from machine work":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075125",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand language":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": communication by means of a manual alphabet : dactylology":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042904",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand lead":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small lead for sounding in shallow water":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccled"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014644",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand luggage":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": small pieces of luggage that a passenger can carry onto an airplane":[
"You are entitled to one piece of hand luggage per flight."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102905",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hand out":{
"antonyms":[
"misallocate"
],
"definitions":{
": a folder or circular of information for free distribution":[],
": a portion of food, clothing, or money given to or as if to a beggar":[],
": a prepared statement released to the news media":[],
": administer":[
"handed out a severe punishment"
],
": to give freely":[],
": to give without charge":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He sat on the sidewalk asking for a handout .",
"The family wasn't interested in government handouts .",
"The handouts had all the major points of his speech outlined on them.",
"Verb",
"no system yet in place for handing out room assignments",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"More than 130 were helped with county benefit programs, nearly 200 hygiene kits were handed out, 44 vaccines were administered and a nurse offered more than a 130 doses of Narcan, which can reverse overdoses, according to the handout . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In most cases, government subsidies of sports stadiums are gigantic wastes of money \u2014 but the $1 billion handout being prepared for the billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills is a giant waste of money that has the stink of corruption on it. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Some armchair critics called the deal a handout to a millionaire or corporate welfare. \u2014 John Igliozzi, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"RICK HESS - Biden admin found time to assail public charter schools, denounce state tests as an attack on public schools and give a taxpayer handout for college loans. \u2014 Jack Durschlag, Fox News , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The average underserved families are not just looking for a handout . \u2014 Moms Helping Moms, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"But the Carex website shows the rail ($50.37) installed only on tubs with double walls and a flat rim, and illustrations in the installation handout are similar. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Apr. 2022",
"According to one handout , the wipes are a fabric, not paper. \u2014 cleveland , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Governor Hochul is spearheading the handout project. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 23 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1648, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
"1882, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hand-\u02ccau\u0307t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion",
"prorate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215858",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hand over":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to yield control of":[]
},
"examples":[
"the police officer ordered the suspect to hand over his weapons",
"in response to a desperate plea, we handed over all our extra blankets and pillows to the homeless shelter",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Court documents show that the victims' families subpoenaed records related to the shooting and surrounding events, but the school district did not hand over the documents by the deadline set. \u2014 Will Mcduffie, ABC News , 23 June 2022",
"The attorney general agreed to delay the depositions during the pending appeal, while Mr. Trump agreed to hand over documents by the end of March. \u2014 Corinne Ramey, WSJ , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Among the remaining 37,650 pages at issue, Carter reviewed 336 pages and required Eastman in his March decision to hand over the 101 documents totaling 315 pages. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The committee has made criminal referrals against four Trump White House officials for their refusal to sit for questioning or hand over documents, accusing them of contempt of Congress. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
"As did a request by New York's attorney general, Letitia James, for Trump to be held in contempt of court for allegedly refusing to comply with an order to hand over documents in her civil investigation of his firm's business practices. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The ruling by Judge Barbara Bellis, obtained by PEOPLE, said that Jones and his companies, Infowars and Free Speech Systems, failed to hand over documents and records for discovery. \u2014 Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The employee contacted the F.B.I., which instructed him to hand over dummy documents and eventually to arrange a meeting in Belgium, where Xu was arrested. \u2014 The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Amazon\u2019s attorneys refused to hand over documents related to the internal investigation. \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"In Utah\u2019s 4th Congressional District, Rep. Burgess Owens continues to raise money hand over fist , pulling in $382,646 for the quarter and just over $2 million in total for the 2022 election cycle. \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Typically, the services did so by losing money hand over fist , charging a nominal fee or offering months of free service or product to anyone who signed up. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 3 Mar. 2022",
"By the time Thomas Mellon died in 1908, his children were making money hand over fist , and their political power would soon match their wealth. \u2014 Patricia Callahan, ProPublica , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The only sound was coming from the men who were in a line carrying hand over fist buckets of ash down the mound. \u2014 Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Sohel\u2019s father, boozing it up and selling his property hand over fist , and then dying rather ignominiously in a drunken New Year\u2019s Eve crash, has squandered not just property but connections also. \u2014 Cressida Leysho, The New Yorker , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Nervous traders are buying US 10-year Treasuries hand over fist , pushing their yields to under 1.3% \u2014 the lowest rate for long-term bonds since February. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 8 July 2021",
"Even as lockdowns have been relaxed, and some travel has resumed, airlines, cruise lines and tour operators are all still losing money hand over fist . \u2014 The Economist , 31 Aug. 2020",
"And even though Robinhood has been raising cash hand over fist in the private markets, analysts still say an IPO could be in the cards for the startup before the end of 2021. \u2014 Matt Egan, CNN , 17 Aug. 2020"
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"Verb",
"was happy to hand her grandmother's cookie recipes to the parish ladies to put in their cookbook",
"the clerk handed her the receipt",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Their approach: wait by the hospital doors of the hospital at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for the shift change, free coffee and hot chocolate in hand . \u2014 Phil Wahba, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"With an eye cream or a serum in hand , opt for these reusable Dieux eye masks, designed to increase the efficacy of your favorite eye cream or serum. \u2014 Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022",
"With a list of these projects and technologies in hand , start exploring a path to create programs that build both momentum and efficiency. \u2014 David Nugent, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Charles\u2019s apartment, prompting Mabel and Oliver to scurry into the bedroom with the painting in hand . \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 28 June 2022",
"Farmers grew up with shovel in hand ready to cut drainage ditches. \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Fans attending the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic will have numerous options for watching Will Zalatoris, Tony Finau and others with a cold drink in hand . \u2014 Mason Young, Detroit Free Press , 27 June 2022",
"Cooler temperatures, a slight breeze, and maybe a refreshing cocktail in hand ",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley then took to the stage to hand a formal proclamation recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"If additional research bears out the findings, the gum could join face masks and hand sanitizer in the arsenal for curbing the virus\u2019s spread. \u2014 Abdullah Iqbal, Scientific American , 24 Feb. 2022",
"However, Guinness World Records is not ready to hand the title over quite yet. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"Johnson spokeswoman Alexa Henning downplayed the texts after they were publicly revealed for the first time during the committee\u2019s hearing in Washington, but did not deny that Johnson had wanted to hand -deliver the slate of fake electors to Pence. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"How the president and his briefcase-toting brigands sought to pressure the Justice Department and election officials around the country to ignore those results and hand the president the second term that voters refused him. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"Cadillac plans to hand -build just 500 examples of the sedan at its parent company General Motors\u2019 Global Technical Center in southeast Michigan starting next year. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 28 June 2022",
"Most savvy people would not hand money to a financial advisor that acted merely as a transactional clearing house. \u2014 Regina Hoshimi, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Former President Donald Trump's campaign, the House Jan. 6 committee has detailed, wanted Pence to use the fake Trump electors to halt or at least delay certifying President Biden's electoral victory and eventually hand the election to Trump. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 27 June 2022",
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"And putting money in people\u2019s pockets goes hand -in-hand with social distancing policies, by defraying some of the costs of closing non-essential businesses, which in turn threatens the reliable paychecks of thousands of workers. \u2014 Ben Adler, The New Republic , 13 Apr. 2020",
"The two phenomena go hand -in-hand: The Arctic Oscillation is positive because the polar vortex is strong. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 19 Feb. 2020",
"The developments come a day after the managers hand -delivered the articles of impeachment, adopted by the House in December, to the Senate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signed them in a historic engrossment ceremony. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Jan. 2020",
"One shop sold stuffed toys made to look hand -woven, as if a wry old local was out back sewing Ewok dolls. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Sep. 2019",
"His vision is carried on by three generations of his family who hand -pick grapes to make homemade wine. \u2014 Verna Gates, al , 19 Sep. 2019",
"Food that\u2019s healthy for people and healthy for the environment go hand -in-hand. \u2014 Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Oct. 2019",
"For the next election, all of L.A. County will be ditching the previous system where voters hand -marked ballots for a system where computers will aid in the marking process. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Half the fun is perusing the lengthy cocktail list, designed to look hand -scrawled and presented in a small binder. \u2014 Paul Hodgins, Daily Pilot , 25 Sep. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There\u2019s also a new sleek handbag silhouette from JW Pei (a celebrity favorite), monochrome waistcoat vests, and perfect gold jewelry accents. \u2014 Madeline Fass, Vogue , 29 June 2022",
"The dial\u2019s its clasp-like design mimics the clasp on Chanel\u2019s iconic 2.55 handbag . \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"The Duchess of Cambridge wore her brown hair down straight and accessorized with a small white handbag . \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"For the occasion, Kate wore a white monochrome look consisting of a crisp Alexander McQueen suit paired with a matching top, pointed-toe heels, and a small Mulberry handbag . \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"Whistleblowers detailed paying off government functionaries with Audis, prime cuts of lamb, and once, a Louis Vuitton handbag stuffed with more than $20,000. \u2014 Ryan Lenora Brown, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"But the biggest stars of the party were arguably her flashy gifts from then-fling Ye (Kanye West): a mini ostrich-leather Herm\u00e8s Birkin handbag for Ms. Fox and Birkins in other skins for four of her friends. \u2014 Rory Satran, WSJ , 11 June 2022",
"As spotted by the Telegraph's Camilla Tominey, the royal appears to have gotten a simple circular tattoo behind her ear, which nicely matched her fascinator and handbag . \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 4 June 2022",
"Get deals on deals by bundling a handbag with a wallet or other accessories. \u2014 cleveland , 2 June 2022"
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"Mack has a handbook to help train the volunteer chaplains. \u2014 Dallas News , 23 Sep. 2021",
"The last stage of dying in the hospice handbook will no longer be theoretical. \u2014 Dan Horn, The Enquirer , 16 June 2022",
"Last week, Taiwan's Defense Ministry issued a civil defense handbook detailing how residents should react in the event of a military conflict. \u2014 Eric Cheung, CNN , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Senate investigators found a company handbook showing how, for as little as a thousand dollars, Mr. Omelnitski\u2019s company, the Markom Group, would establish offshore companies for his clients. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
"To help, MN Community Measurement created a handbook on best practices for data collection. \u2014 Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Include vaccination, mask, and Covid-19 testing and quarantine policies in the handbook . \u2014 Allbusiness, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"But within every company, there are informal networks and unwritten rules that will never be found in any employee handbook . \u2014 Gary Burnison, Fortune , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Taiwan issued its first war handbook advising citizens how to respond in the wake of an attack, as Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine raises fears of a Chinese incursion at home. \u2014 Fortune , 12 Apr. 2022"
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"we learned about traditional handcrafts like barrel-making and leather-working at the colonial history museum",
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"She handcrafted a set of bowls out of red clay.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The traditional handcraft has endured for generations. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Apr. 2022",
"In response, her organization is building a center in Kabul to provide basic tailoring, handcraft and secondary education classes to women as well as maternity care and general healthcare services. \u2014 Melissa Mahtani, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Still, the combination of technology and fashion somehow always feels like a gimmick (especially after Dior\u2019s moving couture show in January, which celebrated the beauty of artisanship and handcraft in India). \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Utopian religious sects like the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Amana Colonies combined handcraft , communitarian economics, and piety. \u2014 Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Produced in the founder\u2019s hometown of Durango, Mexico, and sustainably grown and harvested in the surrounding local villages, the attention to handcraft and tradition shines through on the palette. \u2014 Jillian Dara, Forbes , 8 Sep. 2021",
"In Dallas\u2019 Bishop Arts District, Megan Wilkes and Mary Gauntt handcraft sensational pies with local, seasonal ingredients\u2014all baked in a remodeled 1930s Victorian bungalow. \u2014 Megan Murphy, Robb Report , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Developed in 1700, the handcraft is now exclusively produced by a single family-run orchard. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 20 Aug. 2021",
"Given the ubiquity of the material, Moral\u0131o\u011flu sought to elevate the designs by focusing on the concept of handcraft . \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 31 Mar. 2021",
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"Participants will handcraft each of these cocktails. \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 6 Apr. 2022",
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"In 2013, the friends turned into business partners, launching Pura Utz, a whimsical fashion brand that employs Mayan women to handcraft every piece, including beaded banana earrings and a smiley print phone bag. \u2014 Shelby Comroe, Marie Claire , 7 Apr. 2021",
"Students work with faculty to handcraft a learning path to catalyze their personal calling. \u2014 Jim Olson, Fortune , 25 Dec. 2020",
"For just $150, a leather artisan will handcraft your leather boots into a super stylish pair of summer-ready shoes. \u2014 Anastacia Uriegas, Chron , 17 Nov. 2020",
"He is known to handcraft his buildings, slowly, but the deliberate pace didn\u2019t concern Govan. \u2014 Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker , 5 Oct. 2020",
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"In response, her organization is building a center in Kabul to provide basic tailoring, handcraft and secondary education classes to women as well as maternity care and general healthcare services. \u2014 Melissa Mahtani, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
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"In Dallas\u2019 Bishop Arts District, Megan Wilkes and Mary Gauntt handcraft sensational pies with local, seasonal ingredients\u2014all baked in a remodeled 1930s Victorian bungalow. \u2014 Megan Murphy, Robb Report , 2 Sep. 2021",
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"In 2013, the friends turned into business partners, launching Pura Utz, a whimsical fashion brand that employs Mayan women to handcraft every piece, including beaded banana earrings and a smiley print phone bag. \u2014 Shelby Comroe, Marie Claire , 7 Apr. 2021",
"Students work with faculty to handcraft a learning path to catalyze their personal calling. \u2014 Jim Olson, Fortune , 25 Dec. 2020",
"For just $150, a leather artisan will handcraft your leather boots into a super stylish pair of summer-ready shoes. \u2014 Anastacia Uriegas, Chron , 17 Nov. 2020",
"He is known to handcraft his buildings, slowly, but the deliberate pace didn\u2019t concern Govan. \u2014 Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker , 5 Oct. 2020",
"Teachers with regional variants of Indigenous languages often handcraft learning materials for their students. \u2014 TheWeek , 5 Sep. 2020",
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"Another officer is seen in the footage removing Jackson's handcuff . \u2014 NBC News , 15 Apr. 2021",
"The Mahanoy School District, which declined ABC News' request for an interview, says in court documents that the appellate decision threatens to handcuff coaches, principals and teachers nationwide. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 2 Apr. 2021",
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"Wright then pulled away as an officer attempted to handcuff him and got back into the driver's seat of the car. \u2014 Grace Hauck, USA TODAY , 3 Dec. 2021",
"The officers then handcuff him and take a handgun from his waist band. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Feb. 2022",
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"Emerich reached down in an apparent attempt to handcuff Smith, who rolled on his stomach, the footage shows. \u2014 Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Now Notre Dame gets the unenviable task of trying to handcuff a Terps offense that is tied for fifth in the nation in scoring (17.5 goals). \u2014 Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Wright struggled to get away from an officer trying to handcuff him, drawing Potter\u2019s fire from outside the car. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Foster then allegedly got into a fight with a deputy and the corrections officer trying to handcuff him, causing the deputy to sustain a cut on his nose and left hand, according to the documents. \u2014 Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com , 8 Dec. 2021"
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"Emerich reached down in an apparent attempt to handcuff Smith, who rolled on his stomach, the footage shows. \u2014 Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Now Notre Dame gets the unenviable task of trying to handcuff a Terps offense that is tied for fifth in the nation in scoring (17.5 goals). \u2014 Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Wright struggled to get away from an officer trying to handcuff him, drawing Potter\u2019s fire from outside the car. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Foster then allegedly got into a fight with a deputy and the corrections officer trying to handcuff him, causing the deputy to sustain a cut on his nose and left hand, according to the documents. \u2014 Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com , 8 Dec. 2021"
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"Emerich reached down in an apparent attempt to handcuff Smith, who rolled on his stomach, the footage shows. \u2014 Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Now Notre Dame gets the unenviable task of trying to handcuff a Terps offense that is tied for fifth in the nation in scoring (17.5 goals). \u2014 Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
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"Strawberries are one of a handful of items to fall in price. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 28 June 2022",
"Baldwin is one of a handful of celebrities that's voiced support for Allen in recent years. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 28 June 2022",
"The Pistons are one of a handful of teams linked to Ayton with the Pacers, Spurs, Raptors and Hawks being others. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
"Across the last few months and without much noise, IU Athletics extended new contracts to a handful of coaches across its department. \u2014 Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star , 21 June 2022",
"Alabama is one of a handful of states holding contests Tuesday at the midpoint of a primary season that has been shaped by Trump\u2019s effort to influence the GOP. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
"Among those arrested was Robert Smigel, the longtime Saturday Night Live and Late Night writer who has appeared on Colbert\u2019s show in character as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on a handful of occasions. \u2014 Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 June 2022",
"The floating dock will be anchored to an old timber loading dock that today sees only a handful of ships a year through a private logging company, project officials said. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022"
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"Another thing to look for will be a foam handgrip , which offers better comfort and control. \u2014 Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Kerl's body cam video shows Danquirs Franklin slowly bringing the gun out of his clothing, holding the top of the weapon by his thumb and forefinger, with the barrel pointed toward him and the handgrip coming into view first, the lawsuit says. \u2014 Mallika Kallingal, CNN , 12 June 2020",
"The researchers measured handgrip strength using a machine called a hydraulic hand dynamometer. \u2014 Mark Lieber, CNN , 14 Mar. 2018",
"With upgrades like custom stainless steel gas tanks, handlebars, and subframes, as well as handmade leather seats and handgrips , Eccles creates one-of-a-kind motorcycles that look like museum pieces but are meant to be ridden. \u2014 Scott Christian, Esquire , 14 Sep. 2015",
"Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernized 1959 / Length: 35 inches / Weight: 8 pounds 1 Stock Designers replaced the AK-47's solid-wood stock and handgrip with less expensive and sturdier plywood in the AKM. \u2014 Erin Mccarthy, Popular Mechanics , 17 Sep. 2017",
"The 20-megapixel J5 has a nice little handgrip and a textured front panel which give it a subdued throwback aesthetic. \u2014 Tim Moynihan, WIRED , 3 Apr. 2015",
"Swearing during the second exercise, a handgrip test that was less extreme than the biking, made participants 8 percent stronger. \u2014 Sarah Rense, Esquire , 15 May 2017",
"The results showed people who had cursed produced more power on the exercise bike and had a stronger handgrip . \u2014 Ryan Dipentima, ajc , 8 May 2017"
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"The juvenile suspect, a Waterbury resident, was arrested for possession of a semi-automatic, 9-millimeter handgun with 10 rounds of live ammunition in the magazine, Bessette said. \u2014 Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant , 13 June 2022",
"Mullendore said the suspect used a semiautomatic handgun , which was recovered after the shootout. \u2014 Michael Kunzelman, Anchorage Daily News , 10 June 2022",
"Mullendore said the suspect used a semiautomatic handgun , which was recovered after the shootout. \u2014 Sarah Brumfield, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"The three men had a brief physical fight, which was recorded by a cell phone, before Jackson pulled out a handgun , fired, and struck Towns. \u2014 Fox News , 7 June 2022",
"After serving a search warrant at his home, authorities discovered a handgun with a bloodstained handle, as well as bloodstained jeans, Murphy said. \u2014 William Lee, Chicago Tribune , 23 May 2022",
"On Friday, Kane said police found in the apartment at the northern edge of Carver-Langston more than 100 rounds of ammunition, a .45-caliber handgun , and an assault weapon resembling an AK-47. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2022",
"New York\u2019s law requires a gun owner to obtain a license to carry a handgun . \u2014 Ann E. Marimow And Shayna Jacobs, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2022",
"People who want to carry a handgun concealed must be 21, and not have a felony on their record. \u2014 Cameron Knight, The Enquirer , 13 June 2022"
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"handhabend from Middle English, from Old English handhabbend , from hand, hond hand + habbend , present participle of habben to have":"Adjective"
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"\""
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"adjective",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These things walk across the level's floor while the wizard scoots back and forth, occasionally smashing the ground with a massive handheld whale. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 30 June 2022",
"Imaging features include digital FlowState stabilization for horizon leveling and smooth handheld video, and is smart enough to erase selfie sticks from video when stitching footage together. \u2014 Jim Fisher, PCMAG , 28 June 2022",
"The proliferation of wireless handheld devices that charge at lower voltages makes surge protection more important than ever. \u2014 Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics , 28 June 2022",
"The European Union is adopting a law that requires all handheld technology to use the same charging cord - USB Type-C - to reduce e-waste and help consumers save money. \u2014 Gene Marks, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
"The Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant shower room contained a seat and small shelf for items in the antechamber, and a small shelf and seat within the shower, which had a handheld shower affixed to the wall. \u2014 Erika Mailman, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Footage is culled from drones, stationary cameras, handheld ones, and other devices, providing variety and the best kind of disorientation. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"Hyperice's small handheld therapy gun is quiet and lightweight at 1.5 pounds. \u2014 Milan Polk And Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health , 8 June 2022",
"By 2024, all new mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, handheld video game devices, headphones, portable speakers, keyboards, mice, earbuds, and other portable devices will need USB-C charging ports, the European Commission announced. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022"
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-\u02c8held",
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"she tried to maintain her tight handhold on the umbrella as the wind picked up",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In their final descent, the toadlets sometimes reach for a handhold , but the effort is for naught. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"The hoods are taller than those found on Shimano\u2019s Ultegra and Dura-Ace levers in order to provide a more secure handhold when riding rough roadswith hands perched on top of the levers. \u2014 Josh Patterson, Outside Online , 18 May 2020",
"The climb was originally rated 5.14d but was bumped up to 5.15a when a handhold near the top broke off. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 18 Mar. 2015",
"Back off your shoulder rotation slightly and try kicking your bottom leg away from your handhold , moving your knee backwards and increasing the stretch. \u2014 Andrew Simmons, Outside Online , 23 Sep. 2019",
"At this point, a handhold in the office is too weak of a stance for her. \u2014 Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report , 7 Nov. 2021",
"All but the shortest hikers can get through this jumble without the need for a handhold . \u2014 Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic , 3 Mar. 2021",
"The producer of the ceremony protested, saying a handhold would ruin photos of the moment. \u2014 Scott Wilson, Los Angeles Times , 2 Dec. 2020",
"But the top step was so narrow, and the riser so wobbly, that Johnson asked for a handhold to be installed. \u2014 Scott Wilson, Los Angeles Times , 2 Dec. 2020"
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"1643, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8hand-\u02cch\u014dld"
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"His shyness was a handicap in his job.",
"She's been practicing a lot and her handicap has gone down from 18 to 12.",
"Verb",
"It's very hard to handicap the election at this point.",
"the baseball player's small size did not handicap him in the least",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 1936, famed Olympic runner Jesse Owens raced a horse in a 100-yard dash and won thanks in part to a 40-yard handicap ). \u2014 Emily Barone, Time , 19 July 2017",
"LNK classes have done everything from installing handicap doors at Redwood to creating a Healthy Newborn site for Transitions that serves mothers going through addiction recovery. \u2014 Brent Cooper, Cincinnati.com , 17 July 2017",
"A vehicle was blocking the handicap ramp Tuesday in the first block of Taft Street. \u2014 The Aegis , 14 July 2017",
"Participants must be 21 years old or older and have an official USGA handicap . \u2014 Naperville Sun , 7 July 2017",
"When Britain leaves the EU, British financial services companies would lose the automatic right to operate in all the other 27 EU states, a big handicap . \u2014 Washington Post , 23 June 2017",
"One man, who has a handicap , had to escape through a window, according to media reports. \u2014 Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity.com , 21 June 2017",
"With a USGA 1.3 handicap , Mercer is a latecomer to golf, having taken it up in 2005 at the end of his freshman high school year at Gary (Ind.) Roosevelt. \u2014 Gregg Voss, chicagotribune.com , 29 June 2017",
"These are just a few examples of the many companies that have excelled by treating transparency not as a handicap , but as a competitive advantage. \u2014 Sophie Bakalar, Fortune , 24 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But de-platforming users is not a long-term solution -- and in some cases may handicap law enforcement and intelligence analysts seeking to understand fringe group messaging. \u2014 Byjohn Cohen, ABC News , 21 May 2022",
"That uncertainty has sent Wall Street through jagged up-and-down jolts as investors struggle to handicap how much economic damage omicron will ultimately do. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Nov. 2021",
"That uncertainty has sent Wall Street through jagged up-and-down jolts as investors struggle to handicap how much economic damage omicron will ultimately do. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Nov. 2021",
"From there, the fellas handicap the developing playoff picture and learn how Bryce started following the Pistons. \u2014 Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press , 5 Apr. 2022",
"In his new role, Davis will continue to handicap the Oscars and Emmys races as a definitive journalist covering awards season, offering weekly predictions of the top contenders, interviews and analysis. \u2014 Variety Staff, Variety , 18 Mar. 2022",
"That uncertainty has sent Wall Street through jagged up-and-down jolts as investors struggle to handicap how much economic damage omicron will ultimately do. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The swim around the approximately 300-feet of border fencing that protrudes into the Pacific Ocean would be relatively easy if not for substantial rip currents caused by the border structure that can handicap even the strongest swimmers. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 Oct. 2021",
"That uncertainty has sent Wall Street through jagged up-and-down jolts as investors struggle to handicap how much economic damage omicron will ultimately do. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Nov. 2021"
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"1751, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1789, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
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"obsolete English handicap , a game in which forfeit money was held in a cap, from hand in cap":"Noun"
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"-d\u0113-",
"\u02c8han-di-\u02cckap"
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"debit",
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"He has been handicapped since his motorcycle accident."
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"1884, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-d\u0113-",
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": a person who predicts the winners in a contest (such as a horse race)":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Respected golf handicapper Rufus Peabody ran all of the entrants through a battery of more than 100,000 simulations and said Johnson is a 43/1 underdog. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Gold, who had worked as track handicapper at Prairie Meadows in the mid-1990s, began talking to Crawford about the attorney\u2019s algorithm to identify affordable racehorses. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"West Coast Handicapping Report author and insightful handicapper and race analyst Rob Henie has a dilemma this weekend. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Like a handicapper playing the field at a racetrack, DARPA was already backing six of the eight teams, including CoSTAR and Explorer. \u2014 David Montgomery, Washington Post , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Kenny is a power ratings expert, handicapper and former Las Vegas oddsmaker. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Marc Lawrence - Sports handicapper and author of the popular Playbook Sports Newsletter. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Here are some notable moves on top 25 teams, as provided by industry colleague, pro bettor and handicapper Brad Powers. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Michael Beychok, the handicapper who won the 2012 National Thoroughbred Racing Association\u2019s National Horseplayers Championship, filed a suit last month alleging that Baffert and Zedan doped the colt and committed fraud to win the Derby. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2021"
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"-d\u0113-",
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"Her favorite handicraft is sewing.",
"volunteers demonstrating early American handicrafts , such as blacksmithing, glassblowing, and weaving",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ancient technique of Shibori is a Japanese traditional handicraft used mainly for kimono. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Macrame owls combined the desire for nature with a rising handicraft movement ... \u2014 Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Gandhi believed an architecture of post-colonial self-determination depended on local traditions and tapped into native veins of handicraft and village culture. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The presentation combines traditional Taiwanese dough figurine handicraft and VR technology. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Today, La Seu, as the cathedral is known, looms over Palma\u2019s Old Town, a busy warren of handicraft shops, tapas bars, historic palacios and sunny plazas. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Nov. 2021",
"The 30 meter curved iconic pool with its handicraft blue mosaics crafted by Michael Mayer is at the same level as the Seine river. \u2014 C\u00e9cilia Pelloux, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"On the design front, there is a distinctive handicraft industry, from wooden shipbuilding (dhows) to pottery to embroidery that laid the foundation for more innovative approaches. \u2014 Isabella Sullivan, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 1 Sep. 2021",
"The curved pool with its handicraft blue mosaics by Michael Mayer offers an ode of calm in the bustle of the city. \u2014 C\u00e9cilia Pelloux, Forbes , 3 Sep. 2021"
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"1523, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Middle English handi-crafte , alteration of handcraft":""
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"Her favorite handicraft is sewing.",
"volunteers demonstrating early American handicrafts , such as blacksmithing, glassblowing, and weaving",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ancient technique of Shibori is a Japanese traditional handicraft used mainly for kimono. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Macrame owls combined the desire for nature with a rising handicraft movement ... \u2014 Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Gandhi believed an architecture of post-colonial self-determination depended on local traditions and tapped into native veins of handicraft and village culture. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The presentation combines traditional Taiwanese dough figurine handicraft and VR technology. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Today, La Seu, as the cathedral is known, looms over Palma\u2019s Old Town, a busy warren of handicraft shops, tapas bars, historic palacios and sunny plazas. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Nov. 2021",
"The 30 meter curved iconic pool with its handicraft blue mosaics crafted by Michael Mayer is at the same level as the Seine river. \u2014 C\u00e9cilia Pelloux, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"On the design front, there is a distinctive handicraft industry, from wooden shipbuilding (dhows) to pottery to embroidery that laid the foundation for more innovative approaches. \u2014 Isabella Sullivan, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 1 Sep. 2021",
"The curved pool with its handicraft blue mosaics by Michael Mayer offers an ode of calm in the bustle of the city. \u2014 C\u00e9cilia Pelloux, Forbes , 3 Sep. 2021"
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"He won the card game handily .",
"handily whipped up a fluffy meringue and spread it on the pie",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Coached by former New England Patriot Vernon Crawford, the Renegades (7-0) beat the Passion (4-2) handily in the regular season, a 46-8 win at home May 7. \u2014 Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"Mainland China was off despite strong May export of +16.9% year over year and import data +4.1% YoY, which handily beat economist expectations. \u2014 Brendan Ahern, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"The Maples scored 74 points to handily beat runner-up Powder Valley. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 May 2022",
"Volvo Cars also beat expectations handily and its stock\u2014relisted last year by Chinese controlling shareholder Zhejiang Geely\u2014rose 8% Thursday and jumped again Friday. \u2014 Stephen Wilmot, WSJ , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Newsom handily beat the recall but is up for reelection in November. \u2014 Fox News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The Detroit Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche handily on March 26, 1997, first with their gloves off and then, in overtime, with their gloves on in a game that has become an integral part of franchise history. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Tennessee knocked out Kentucky in the SEC tourney semis and handily beat Texas A&M in the conference title game. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Joe Biden beat Donald Trump handily in Colorado in 2020, by more than 10 points. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2022"
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"1659, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"They admired the potter's beautiful handiwork .",
"I think all of these problems are her handiwork .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the full emails included passages in which the researchers expressed enthusiastic belief in their final handiwork . \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
"As Checkbook\u2019s ratings reveal, most area companies routinely offer superior customer service \u2014 but slipshod handiwork and other problems are common. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 May 2022",
"Highlighting the top of her cheekbones with the Tom Ford Shade and Illuminate Cream Face Palette, Hailey shows off her handiwork by patting the product gently on the skin to up the glimmer's intensity. \u2014 Seventeen , 11 May 2022",
"That doesn\u2019t speak well for the care that legislators ostensibly lavished on their handiwork the first time around. \u2014 Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Their handiwork is unmistakable on a heat map produced by the plaintiffs challenging the Alabama map. \u2014 David Daley, CNN , 22 Feb. 2022",
"This winter, Watkins planned to visit friends in California and survive by driving for Uber or doing handiwork . \u2014 Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The movement is global, drawing on IT professionals in the Ukrainian diaspora whose handiwork includes web defacements with antiwar messaging and graphic images of death and destruction in the hopes of mobilizing Russians against the invasion. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 5 Mar. 2022",
"It\u2019s in the Statehouse, not the Archives, where Owen\u2019s handiwork perhaps best reveals itself \u2014 when Sons of Confederate Veterans repeat the lies of the Confederate catechism in committee meetings. \u2014 al , 16 Feb. 2022"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Middle English handiwerk , from Old English handgeweorc , from hand + geweorc , from ge- (collective prefix) + weorc work \u2014 more at co-":""
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"\u02c8han-di-\u02ccw\u0259rk",
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"\u02c8ha\u014bk\u0259(r)ch\u0259(r)",
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"tied a handkerchief around her head and set about cleaning out the dust-covered attic",
"usually dries her hands on her handkerchief when there are no towels available",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Simone Ashley, recently seen in a Conner Ives handkerchief top and matching headscarf, is a prime example, as is Olivia Wilde in a floral maxi dress and furry overcoat. \u2014 Henrik Lischke, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
"Other shots include the Big Sky actor, 38, proudy holding his son, who looks adorable in a blazer with a bowtie and handkerchief in his pocket, and another of Dorsey giving his son a kiss on the cheek. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
"Who was screaming and crying into her handkerchief in pit lane at his first Indy 500 qualifying run. \u2014 Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star , 26 May 2022",
"Placing a mask on the table would be like parking a handkerchief there after blowing one\u2019s nose, and should never be done. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Feb. 2022",
"In the imagery of Bloody Sunday, the 17-year-old seems limp, and Father Daly waves a bloodstained handkerchief as an impromptu flag of truce. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Jan. 2022",
"Dorando Pietri, a resilient little Italian cake maker in a white shirt, baggy red shorts, and a knotted handkerchief on his head entered the stadium with a big lead. \u2014 Roger Robinson, Outside Online , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Jason Momoa wore a handkerchief with the colors of the Ukrainian flag, and Yoon Yeo-jeong had a blue ribbon pinned to her outfit. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Mar. 2022",
"In the imagery of Bloody Sunday, the 17-year-old seems limp, and Daly waves a bloodstained handkerchief as an impromptu flag of truce. \u2014 Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Jan. 2022"
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"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8ha\u014b-k\u0259r-ch\u0259f",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021304",
"type":[
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"The 40-pound box has a handle , easily pours from a hole in the side, and should last about two months. \u2014 Ali Kessler, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022",
"Conveying this aspect of business continuity is crucial to key stakeholders, including the investment community, and shows that the firm has a handle on its strategic direction moving forward. \u2014 Curtis Sparrer, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Trusting that God has a handle on our lives is our only source of hope. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 22 June 2022",
"Smalls worried that Wesley and her team \u2014 many of whom had been focused on helping with the first warehouse campaign \u2014 didn\u2019t have a good handle on the problems and frustrations of workers inside their building. \u2014 Greg Jaffe, Washington Post , 12 June 2022",
"While Game 1 devolved into an Oklahoma home run derby in the very first inning, Texas had a better handle on the Sooners to begin the rematch. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 9 June 2022",
"But this sci-fi, fantasy crowd pleaser has a real handle on what exactly makes a dude into a father. \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"The forecast models do not have a good handle on this possible storm and are forecasting completely two different outcomes. \u2014 Judson Jones, CNN , 31 May 2022",
"There are still logistics about teams putting players\u2019 names in the portal, and players have a chance to withdraw, but by the end of this week, college football should have a handle on player movement for this season. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, cleveland , 2 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"No word yet on how the Apple TV+ version, from British writer Katherine Jakeways, will handle the final parts of the story line. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"What happens next will be closely watched for ideas on how to handle displacement on a massive scale. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Amy Gallo breaks down eight different profiles of difficult coworkers\u2014from the know-it-all to the insecure boss\u2014offering the reader strategies on how to handle and work with each of them without losing your mind. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 26 June 2022",
"Like Shaq, defenses still have no clue how to handle Curry in the halfcourt. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"Good thing Davis knows how to handle a curveball or two. \u2014 Sandra Gonzalez, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Deakins also said the county has to decide how to handle crowding at the jail. \u2014 Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online , 22 June 2022",
"High-level planning has already begun on how to handle the financial reporting, Mr. Banati said. \u2014 Kristin Broughton, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"Hamrick has some advice on how to handle the current monetary environment: pay down debt and look to higher-yielding savings accounts. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 15 June 2022"
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"Has a screen attached to her handlebar at the end of the dolly. \u2014 Scott King, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"First, the user applies force by gripping and pushing the handlebar forward. \u2014 Will Briskin, Popular Mechanics , 22 May 2022",
"Then, engage your shoulders, arms and back to pull the handlebar back. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 13 May 2022",
"Alchemy Bicycles is offering $1,000 off both the Arktos 29 bike and Arktos 29 ST Complete mountain bike, and a free Enve M7 Mountain handlebar with the purchase, using the code GETOUTSIDE. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 19 Aug. 2020",
"The moose broke my handlebar , my stanchions, and my brake. \u2014 Blair Braverman, Outside Online , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Jenna Allerson, owner of Apple Valley and Farmington Moms on the Run in Minnesota, recommends shoppers look for a model that isn\u2019t too bulky and comes with an adjustable handlebar so that runners of varying heights can enjoy using it. \u2014 Sara Coughlin, SELF , 7 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s also a surprisingly large amount of lockable onboard storage, a 12V power port to recharge small devices and an adjustable handlebar and windscreen. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Then Kindar-Martin jumped on a bike without a handlebar and rode across the flaming wire, even pausing midway while keeping his balance. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"When asked what doctors and nurses on the front lines at Cincinnati Children's Hospital needed to keep the hospital cleaner, the answer was quick: handless door hooks. \u2014 James Weber, Cincinnati.com , 7 Apr. 2020",
"Join us on deck for games such as handless doughnut eating, deadeye bowling and cauldron tossing. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 Oct. 2017"
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"City police on Tuesday also released videos of their handling of Cox and said state police were called in to investigate. \u2014 Dave Collins, Baltimore Sun , 22 June 2022",
"But the statement was met with incredulity online, with many criticizing authorities' handling of the case. \u2014 Nectar Gan And Cnn's Beijing Bureau, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"The officer charged an adult male with improper handling of a firearm in a vehicle, according to a police event report. \u2014 Bruce Geiselman, cleveland , 18 June 2022",
"Surveys show that Americans see high inflation as the nation's top problem, and most disapprove of President Joe Biden's handling of the economy. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 11 June 2022",
"Halsey Tweeted on Wednesday night that they were disappointed with the venue's handling of the situation and would be rescheduling the show somewhere else. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"Reporters found insufficient staffing, rampant substance abuse, improper handling of medications, and substandard care had plagued the facility long before the death of 80-year-old resident Patricia Newnum on Feb. 2. \u2014 Tony Cook, The Indianapolis Star , 26 May 2022",
"And while most people continue to disapprove of the president's handling of inflation and the economy, those ratings have not moved much, for better or worse, perhaps because people remain pessimistic about those issues. \u2014 Anthony Salvanto, CBS News , 22 May 2022",
"New York does have laws in place against improper handling of weapons like firearms, Rendelman said. \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022"
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"received a handmade sweater at the baby shower",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The department alleges two fellow inmates attacked Hector Jimenez with a handmade weapon about 7:20 p.m. in a common room. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"An extra handmade touch helped to complement the sweet absurdity of the film as a whole. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"These handmade ballet flats also flex and bend in half, to pack in a carry-on for work or vacation. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"Many of her puppets\u2014all handmade , some constructed out of pots and pans or other flotsam\u2014are in the collection of the Children\u2019s Museum of Pittsburgh. \u2014 Susan Orlean, The New Yorker , 22 June 2022",
"All Lowther Loudspeakers are handmade to order in Great Britain and sold in numbered pairs. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Because Lasso\u2019s jeans are all handmade to order, there\u2019s also no risk of overproduction, and returns get donated or recycled as home insulation. \u2014 Julianne Ross, CNN Underscored , 4 Mar. 2021",
"Sous chef Juan Martinez puts handmade tortillas on the grill at Taqueria Al Lado. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Skeff\u2019s is known for its rotating list of egg rolls handmade by kitchen manager and head chef Tyler Medeiros, who is dating Eileen\u2019s daughter, Shannon O\u2019Brien, the bar\u2019s general manager. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022"
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"But this bit of craft wisdom\u2014conflict is king\u2014is the handmaiden of a paranoid anthropology, and a limited way of thinking about action and speech. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Dashing across to meet him was Padm\u00e9 Amidala, trailed by a handmaiden and one of Naboo\u2019s security, a woman Obi-Wan recognized as Mariek Panaka. \u2014 Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"Most people talk about the story that comes after, but I was told by a person who studies regional folklore in Japan that some placed traditionally believed the handmaiden was Amaterasu\u2019s lover. \u2014 Goldie Chan, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"The upper level is faulted for admitting too much light and its inevitable handmaiden shadow; the lower for admitting too little. \u2014 Anthony Paletta, WSJ , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Here comes Judith accompanied by her handmaiden , with the head of Holofernes in tow. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 20 Dec. 2021",
"So there\u2019s plenty of evidence that caffeine was a kind of handmaiden to the Industrial Revolution. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 9 July 2021",
"This, of course, begs the question if Catherine really did have a handmaiden who helped her seize power. \u2014 Rachel Paige, refinery29.com , 5 Jan. 2021",
"This, of course, begs the question if Catherine really did have a handmaiden who helped her seize power. \u2014 Rachel Paige, refinery29.com , 5 Jan. 2021"
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"But this bit of craft wisdom\u2014conflict is king\u2014is the handmaiden of a paranoid anthropology, and a limited way of thinking about action and speech. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Dashing across to meet him was Padm\u00e9 Amidala, trailed by a handmaiden and one of Naboo\u2019s security, a woman Obi-Wan recognized as Mariek Panaka. \u2014 Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"Most people talk about the story that comes after, but I was told by a person who studies regional folklore in Japan that some placed traditionally believed the handmaiden was Amaterasu\u2019s lover. \u2014 Goldie Chan, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"The upper level is faulted for admitting too much light and its inevitable handmaiden shadow; the lower for admitting too little. \u2014 Anthony Paletta, WSJ , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Here comes Judith accompanied by her handmaiden , with the head of Holofernes in tow. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 20 Dec. 2021",
"So there\u2019s plenty of evidence that caffeine was a kind of handmaiden to the Industrial Revolution. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 9 July 2021",
"This, of course, begs the question if Catherine really did have a handmaiden who helped her seize power. \u2014 Rachel Paige, refinery29.com , 5 Jan. 2021",
"This, of course, begs the question if Catherine really did have a handmaiden who helped her seize power. \u2014 Rachel Paige, refinery29.com , 5 Jan. 2021"
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"the police officer ordered the suspect to hand over his weapons",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Court documents show that the victims' families subpoenaed records related to the shooting and surrounding events, but the school district did not hand over the documents by the deadline set. \u2014 Will Mcduffie, ABC News , 23 June 2022",
"The attorney general agreed to delay the depositions during the pending appeal, while Mr. Trump agreed to hand over documents by the end of March. \u2014 Corinne Ramey, WSJ , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Among the remaining 37,650 pages at issue, Carter reviewed 336 pages and required Eastman in his March decision to hand over the 101 documents totaling 315 pages. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The committee has made criminal referrals against four Trump White House officials for their refusal to sit for questioning or hand over documents, accusing them of contempt of Congress. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
"As did a request by New York's attorney general, Letitia James, for Trump to be held in contempt of court for allegedly refusing to comply with an order to hand over documents in her civil investigation of his firm's business practices. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The ruling by Judge Barbara Bellis, obtained by PEOPLE, said that Jones and his companies, Infowars and Free Speech Systems, failed to hand over documents and records for discovery. \u2014 Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The employee contacted the F.B.I., which instructed him to hand over dummy documents and eventually to arrange a meeting in Belgium, where Xu was arrested. \u2014 The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Amazon\u2019s attorneys refused to hand over documents related to the internal investigation. \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All attendees will be able to handpick three books from the stacks, which will be organized by grade. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Watson had a no-trade clause in his contract, which gave him the ability to handpick his destination, which turned out to be Cleveland. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2022",
"This angered many local conservatives, who didn\u2019t appreciate Meadows\u2019s attempt to handpick his successor. \u2014 Lisa Rab, Washington Post , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The biggest reward of building A Dozen Cousins has been having the freedom to handpick my team and our key partners. \u2014 Kimberly Wilson, Essence , 2 Feb. 2022",
"The company will handpick hotels initially in markets including, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas and Orlando, targeting travelers from southern or midwestern states who might be driving to Florida or flying into Las Vegas. \u2014 Michael Alpiner, Forbes , 5 Nov. 2021",
"If the Lancers finish unbeaten, they can\u2019t be denied \u2014 CIF officials handpick the teams to play in the Open title game. \u2014 Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Critics say eliminating such caucuses, too, could cut down on the number of people who rig the system \u2014 choosing to retire early in order to try to handpick their successor ahead of a primary or general election. \u2014 Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star , 7 Oct. 2021",
"The roses bloom for only a few short weeks, and women handpick the flowers during that time. \u2014 Jessica Matlin, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 Sep. 2021"
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"All attendees will be able to handpick three books from the stacks, which will be organized by grade. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Watson had a no-trade clause in his contract, which gave him the ability to handpick his destination, which turned out to be Cleveland. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2022",
"This angered many local conservatives, who didn\u2019t appreciate Meadows\u2019s attempt to handpick his successor. \u2014 Lisa Rab, Washington Post , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The biggest reward of building A Dozen Cousins has been having the freedom to handpick my team and our key partners. \u2014 Kimberly Wilson, Essence , 2 Feb. 2022",
"The company will handpick hotels initially in markets including, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas and Orlando, targeting travelers from southern or midwestern states who might be driving to Florida or flying into Las Vegas. \u2014 Michael Alpiner, Forbes , 5 Nov. 2021",
"If the Lancers finish unbeaten, they can\u2019t be denied \u2014 CIF officials handpick the teams to play in the Open title game. \u2014 Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Critics say eliminating such caucuses, too, could cut down on the number of people who rig the system \u2014 choosing to retire early in order to try to handpick their successor ahead of a primary or general election. \u2014 Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star , 7 Oct. 2021",
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"He asked for her hand in marriage."
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"Let's give them a big hand ."
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"a Latin America hand"
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"There was trouble on hand ."
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"\u2014 usually used in plural left the matter in her hands"
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"the hand of vandals"
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": in attendance : present":[
"A priest was on hand to console them."
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": in one's possession or care":[
"too much time on my hands"
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"with money in hand"
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"a new play in hand"
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"kept supplies on hand"
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"The letter \u2026 has come to hand \u2026",
"\u2014 George Washington"
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": near in time or place : within reach":[
"use whatever ingredients are at hand"
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": out of control":[
"They let the situation get out of hand ."
],
": participation , interest":[
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": personal possession":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural The documents fell into the hands of the enemy."
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"tried her hand at sailing"
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": style of execution : workmanship":[
"the hand of a master"
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": style of penmanship : handwriting":[
"wrote in a fancy hand"
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": the cards or pieces held by a player":[
"studied her hand"
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": the feel of or tactile reaction to something (such as silk or leather)":[],
": the force or solidity of one's position (as in negotiations)":[
"trying to strengthen their hand"
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": the forelimb segment (such as the terminal section of a bird's wing) of a vertebrate higher than the fishes that corresponds to the hand irrespective of its form or functional specialization":[],
": the hind foot of an ape":[],
": the terminal part of the vertebrate forelimb when modified (as in humans) as a grasping organ : the body part at the end of the arm of a human, ape, or monkey":[
"holding a pair of scissors in his hand",
"She put her hands over her eyes."
],
": to give credit to : concede the excellence of":[
"I have to hand it to him. He did a wonderful job."
],
": to give, pass, or transmit with the hand":[
"hand a letter to her"
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": to lead, guide, or assist with the hand":[
"hand a lady into a bus"
],
": to present or provide with":[
"handed him a surprise"
],
": under consideration":[
"took the matter in hand"
],
": with the hands":[
"fruit eaten out of hand"
],
": with the hands or a hand-worked implement (such as a tool or pen) rather than with a machine":[],
": with the hands rather than by machine":[
"hand stitched"
],
": within reach":[
"weapons ready to hand"
],
": worker , employee":[
"employed over a hundred hands"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"These gloves will keep your hands warm.",
"She put her hands over her eyes.",
"He sat quietly with his hands folded in his lap.",
"Do you need a hand ",
"Verb",
"was happy to hand her grandmother's cookie recipes to the parish ladies to put in their cookbook",
"the clerk handed her the receipt",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Their approach: wait by the hospital doors of the hospital at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for the shift change, free coffee and hot chocolate in hand . \u2014 Phil Wahba, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"With an eye cream or a serum in hand , opt for these reusable Dieux eye masks, designed to increase the efficacy of your favorite eye cream or serum. \u2014 Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022",
"With a list of these projects and technologies in hand , start exploring a path to create programs that build both momentum and efficiency. \u2014 David Nugent, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Charles\u2019s apartment, prompting Mabel and Oliver to scurry into the bedroom with the painting in hand . \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 28 June 2022",
"Farmers grew up with shovel in hand ready to cut drainage ditches. \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Fans attending the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic will have numerous options for watching Will Zalatoris, Tony Finau and others with a cold drink in hand . \u2014 Mason Young, Detroit Free Press , 27 June 2022",
"Cooler temperatures, a slight breeze, and maybe a refreshing cocktail in hand ",
"With a device in hand , police can just look through the browser and text messages directly. \u2014 Heather Kelly, Tatum Hunter, Danielle Abril, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley then took to the stage to hand a formal proclamation recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"If additional research bears out the findings, the gum could join face masks and hand sanitizer in the arsenal for curbing the virus\u2019s spread. \u2014 Abdullah Iqbal, Scientific American , 24 Feb. 2022",
"However, Guinness World Records is not ready to hand the title over quite yet. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"Johnson spokeswoman Alexa Henning downplayed the texts after they were publicly revealed for the first time during the committee\u2019s hearing in Washington, but did not deny that Johnson had wanted to hand -deliver the slate of fake electors to Pence. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"How the president and his briefcase-toting brigands sought to pressure the Justice Department and election officials around the country to ignore those results and hand the president the second term that voters refused him. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"Cadillac plans to hand -build just 500 examples of the sedan at its parent company General Motors\u2019 Global Technical Center in southeast Michigan starting next year. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 28 June 2022",
"Most savvy people would not hand money to a financial advisor that acted merely as a transactional clearing house. \u2014 Regina Hoshimi, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Former President Donald Trump's campaign, the House Jan. 6 committee has detailed, wanted Pence to use the fake Trump electors to halt or at least delay certifying President Biden's electoral victory and eventually hand the election to Trump. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"And putting money in people\u2019s pockets goes hand -in-hand with social distancing policies, by defraying some of the costs of closing non-essential businesses, which in turn threatens the reliable paychecks of thousands of workers. \u2014 Ben Adler, The New Republic , 13 Apr. 2020",
"The two phenomena go hand -in-hand: The Arctic Oscillation is positive because the polar vortex is strong. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 19 Feb. 2020",
"The developments come a day after the managers hand -delivered the articles of impeachment, adopted by the House in December, to the Senate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signed them in a historic engrossment ceremony. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Jan. 2020",
"One shop sold stuffed toys made to look hand -woven, as if a wry old local was out back sewing Ewok dolls. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Sep. 2019",
"His vision is carried on by three generations of his family who hand -pick grapes to make homemade wine. \u2014 Verna Gates, al , 19 Sep. 2019",
"Food that\u2019s healthy for people and healthy for the environment go hand -in-hand. \u2014 Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Oct. 2019",
"For the next election, all of L.A. County will be ditching the previous system where voters hand -marked ballots for a system where computers will aid in the marking process. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Half the fun is perusing the lengthy cocktail list, designed to look hand -scrawled and presented in a small binder. \u2014 Paul Hodgins, Daily Pilot , 25 Sep. 2019"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3b":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun"
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"Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German hant hand":"Noun, Verb, and Adverb"
},
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"\u02c8hand"
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"synonyms":[
"angle",
"aspect",
"facet",
"phase",
"side"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051524",
"type":[
"adverb",
"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hands down":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": without much effort : easily":[],
": without question":[]
},
"examples":[
"She could win any race hands down .",
"It's hands down the best movie of the year."
],
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"1853, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8handz-\u02c8dau\u0307n",
"\u02c8han(d)z-\u02c8dau\u0307n"
],
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"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"plainly",
"really",
"so",
"sure",
"surely",
"truly",
"unarguably",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035133",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"hands-down":{
"antonyms":[],
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": to transmit in succession (as from father to son)":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084812",
"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
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},
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": any of various units of length varying from about 2\u00b9/\u2082 to 4 inches based on the breadth of a hand":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccbredth",
"-\u02ccbreth",
"\u02c8han(d)z-\u02ccbretth"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112228",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"handsel":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a first installment : earnest money":[],
": a gift made as a token of good wishes or luck especially at the beginning of a new year":[],
": earnest , foretaste":[],
": something received first (as in a day of trading) and taken to be a token of good luck":[],
": to give a handsel to":[],
": to inaugurate with a token or gesture of luck or pleasure":[],
": to use or do for the first time":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"gave little handsels to their houseguests on New Year's Day"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English hansell":"Noun"
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"\u02c8han(t)-s\u0259l"
],
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"bestowal",
"comp",
"donation",
"donative",
"fairing",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"gift",
"giveaway",
"lagniappe",
"largesse",
"largess",
"present",
"presentation"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113848",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance":[],
": moderately large : sizable":[
"a painting that commanded a handsome price"
],
": marked by skill or cleverness : adroit":[],
": marked by graciousness or generosity : liberal":[
"handsome contributions to charity"
],
": appropriate , suitable":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8han(t)-s\u0259m",
"\u02c8han-s\u0259m"
],
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"classy",
"courtly",
"elegant",
"fine",
"graceful",
"majestic",
"refined",
"stately",
"tasteful"
],
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"dowdy",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"styleless",
"tasteless",
"unfashionable",
"unhandsome",
"unstylish"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for handsome beautiful , lovely , handsome , pretty , comely , fair mean exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure. beautiful applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses. beautiful mountain scenery lovely is close to beautiful but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite. a lovely melody handsome suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance. a handsome Georgian mansion pretty often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness. a painter of conventionally pretty scenes comely is like handsome in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally responded to. the comely grace of a dancer fair suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshness. fair of face",
"examples":[
"He was a handsome man, in a big-screen way, with the deep-set eyes and boyish smile and even the lumpy, interesting complexion of a Harrison Ford or a Robert Redford. \u2014 Adam Gopnik , New Yorker , 10 May 2004",
"An Alexandrian statue of a ruggedly handsome man with gaunt features like Caesar's exploits the translucent glow of large-grained marble from the distant Greek island of Thasos, combining Roman attention to the texture of aging skin with the abstract elegance of Egyptian-style almond eyes and chiseled cheekbones. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland , New Republic , 1 & 8 Apr. 2002",
"The Galaxy's first stop, St. Lucia's capital city of Castries, has been destroyed by so many fires that travel writers dismiss it as holding little interest. There I came upon a handsome three-story brick building that had clearly withstood the city's century of conflagrations. It was, of all things, a Carnegie Library, built by that American millionaire's beneficence in 1916. \u2014 Carla Davidson , American Heritage , November 1999",
"With bonds and utility stocks under seige, many people who depend on these traditional income investments are taking a new look at real estate investment trusts . What they're finding is that \"REITs\" generate handsome dividend yields of 6% or more while offering the possibility of capital gains. That's not bad at a time when 10-year Treasury notes, which currently yield about 7%, come with the worry that rising interest rates will cause their value to plummet. \u2014 Lynn Asinof , Wall Street Journal , 3 June 1994",
"It was a handsome house situated on a large lot.",
"The book includes many handsome illustrations.",
"I predict that someone tall, dark, and handsome is going to come into your life.",
"He inherited a handsome fortune.",
"He made a handsome profit on the sale of the house.",
"The book is a handsome tribute to a great poet.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The side profile of the car is relatively handsome too. \u2014 Christian De Looper, BGR , 9 June 2022",
"And there is also a denim shirt that is very handsome . \u2014 Annie Davidson, Robb Report , 26 May 2022",
"Up until the end, Richard Gere is never much more than a handsome guy with a lot of money. \u2014 cleveland , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Denis Lavant stars as Galoup, an adjudant-chef in the French Foreign Legion who develops a tense and ultimately dangerous relationship with one of his soldiers, the handsome and capable Commandant Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor). \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 4 June 2022",
"As sprinklers sputtered to life here and there, a temporary grandstand was going up adjacent to the handsome , yellow-clapboard structure that is the main clubhouse. \u2014 Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"That crisis will upend her deal\u2019s closure and jeopardize the life of her handsome and talented son, Jack. \u2014 Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"With comfortable, sturdy, high-back benches that seat eight and pull up close to the table for intimate conversation, this set is both handsome and practical. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 17 May 2022",
"Plan 75\u2018s young recruitment agent is played by the handsome and personable young Japanese actor Hayato Isomura. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English handsom easy to manipulate":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 5":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005514"
},
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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"a painting that commanded a handsome price"
],
": marked by skill or cleverness : adroit":[],
": marked by graciousness or generosity : liberal":[
"handsome contributions to charity"
],
": appropriate , suitable":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8han(t)-s\u0259m",
"\u02c8han-s\u0259m"
],
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"classy",
"courtly",
"elegant",
"fine",
"graceful",
"majestic",
"refined",
"stately",
"tasteful"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"styleless",
"tasteless",
"unfashionable",
"unhandsome",
"unstylish"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for handsome beautiful , lovely , handsome , pretty , comely , fair mean exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure. beautiful applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses. beautiful mountain scenery lovely is close to beautiful but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite. a lovely melody handsome suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance. a handsome Georgian mansion pretty often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness. a painter of conventionally pretty scenes comely is like handsome in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally responded to. the comely grace of a dancer fair suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshness. fair of face",
"examples":[
"He was a handsome man, in a big-screen way, with the deep-set eyes and boyish smile and even the lumpy, interesting complexion of a Harrison Ford or a Robert Redford. \u2014 Adam Gopnik , New Yorker , 10 May 2004",
"An Alexandrian statue of a ruggedly handsome man with gaunt features like Caesar's exploits the translucent glow of large-grained marble from the distant Greek island of Thasos, combining Roman attention to the texture of aging skin with the abstract elegance of Egyptian-style almond eyes and chiseled cheekbones. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland , New Republic , 1 & 8 Apr. 2002",
"The Galaxy's first stop, St. Lucia's capital city of Castries, has been destroyed by so many fires that travel writers dismiss it as holding little interest. There I came upon a handsome three-story brick building that had clearly withstood the city's century of conflagrations. It was, of all things, a Carnegie Library, built by that American millionaire's beneficence in 1916. \u2014 Carla Davidson , American Heritage , November 1999",
"With bonds and utility stocks under seige, many people who depend on these traditional income investments are taking a new look at real estate investment trusts . What they're finding is that \"REITs\" generate handsome dividend yields of 6% or more while offering the possibility of capital gains. That's not bad at a time when 10-year Treasury notes, which currently yield about 7%, come with the worry that rising interest rates will cause their value to plummet. \u2014 Lynn Asinof , Wall Street Journal , 3 June 1994",
"It was a handsome house situated on a large lot.",
"The book includes many handsome illustrations.",
"I predict that someone tall, dark, and handsome is going to come into your life.",
"He inherited a handsome fortune.",
"He made a handsome profit on the sale of the house.",
"The book is a handsome tribute to a great poet.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The side profile of the car is relatively handsome too. \u2014 Christian De Looper, BGR , 9 June 2022",
"And there is also a denim shirt that is very handsome . \u2014 Annie Davidson, Robb Report , 26 May 2022",
"Up until the end, Richard Gere is never much more than a handsome guy with a lot of money. \u2014 cleveland , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Denis Lavant stars as Galoup, an adjudant-chef in the French Foreign Legion who develops a tense and ultimately dangerous relationship with one of his soldiers, the handsome and capable Commandant Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor). \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 4 June 2022",
"As sprinklers sputtered to life here and there, a temporary grandstand was going up adjacent to the handsome , yellow-clapboard structure that is the main clubhouse. \u2014 Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"That crisis will upend her deal\u2019s closure and jeopardize the life of her handsome and talented son, Jack. \u2014 Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"With comfortable, sturdy, high-back benches that seat eight and pull up close to the table for intimate conversation, this set is both handsome and practical. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 17 May 2022",
"Plan 75\u2018s young recruitment agent is played by the handsome and personable young Japanese actor Hayato Isomura. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022"
],
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"Middle English handsom easy to manipulate":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 5":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203824"
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": a wheel worked by hand":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1704, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113047",
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"noun"
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"handwhile":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": moment , instant":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English handhw\u012bl , from hand, hond hand + hw\u012bl while":""
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174448",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": work done with the hands and not by machines : handiwork":[]
},
"examples":[
"She wore a beaded dress that required many hours of handwork .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The agency plans to use a combination of handwork , bulldozers, masticators, and, when weather, terrain and the location of personal property are right, prescribed burns. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"All additional handwork and tag sewing are completed by hand for an old-world technique-meets-modern design aesthetic. \u2014 Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s an understatement: From October until now, Bent and Gable were completely focused on sustainable handwork \u2014from staining too-white fabric with tea to sourcing additional vintage materials to attaching every. \u2014 Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Still, there are accessories to be discovered, like comfy boxing wraps to level-up handwork at the gym. \u2014 Vogue , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Due to the handwork involved (as well as the nature of enamel), each dial is a unique work of art. \u2014 Nancy Olson, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Rao has come to love the irregularities that result from handwork and that allow evidence of care and process to remain right at the surface. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Oct. 2021",
"While their creations are certainly fashion-forward, Andreev and Komarova are deeply committed to reviving traditional Russian handwork . \u2014 Vogue , 5 Aug. 2021",
"From its rectangular case to its semi-transparent enameling and engraving on the dial, the Cabaret Tourbillion Handwerkskunst is a refined piece with that features a lot of handwork . \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 14 July 2021"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8hand-\u02ccw\u0259rk"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130743",
"type":[
"noun"
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"antonyms":[],
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"a handworked iron railing"
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"type":[
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": work done with the hands and not by machines : handiwork":[]
},
"examples":[
"She wore a beaded dress that required many hours of handwork .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The agency plans to use a combination of handwork , bulldozers, masticators, and, when weather, terrain and the location of personal property are right, prescribed burns. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"All additional handwork and tag sewing are completed by hand for an old-world technique-meets-modern design aesthetic. \u2014 Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s an understatement: From October until now, Bent and Gable were completely focused on sustainable handwork \u2014from staining too-white fabric with tea to sourcing additional vintage materials to attaching every. \u2014 Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Still, there are accessories to be discovered, like comfy boxing wraps to level-up handwork at the gym. \u2014 Vogue , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Due to the handwork involved (as well as the nature of enamel), each dial is a unique work of art. \u2014 Nancy Olson, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Rao has come to love the irregularities that result from handwork and that allow evidence of care and process to remain right at the surface. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Oct. 2021",
"While their creations are certainly fashion-forward, Andreev and Komarova are deeply committed to reviving traditional Russian handwork . \u2014 Vogue , 5 Aug. 2021",
"From its rectangular case to its semi-transparent enameling and engraving on the dial, the Cabaret Tourbillion Handwerkskunst is a refined piece with that features a lot of handwork . \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 14 July 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Customers choose a card online, handwrite a message on a piece of paper, take a photo on their phone and upload it to the website. \u2014 Lisa Kanarek, Wired , 26 Dec. 2021",
"To use Hallmark\u2019s Sign and Send, people need to handwrite a note on blank white paper with black ink and take a photo of the message using a mobile device. \u2014 Ann-marie Alc\u00e1ntara, WSJ , 27 July 2021",
"From the beginning of March up until the morning of graduation at on June 2, Reaves scoured through transcripts, emails and his own memories to handwrite a personalized note to each of the 459 graduating seniors. \u2014 Nikki Ross, USA TODAY , 21 June 2021",
"Symbolizing travel and exploration, people can handwrite a message on the bench and share photos. \u2014 Celia Shatzman, Forbes , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The young Ronald Reagan read Coolidge\u2019s autobiography and 50 years later would be handwriting the hundreds of fast, crisp radio speeches that helped to launch his successful run for the presidency. \u2014 Thomas Mallon, WSJ , 7 Feb. 2020",
"For example, rather than just standing and making small talk at a viewing, families can ask mourners to handwrite letters that will be placed under the deceased\u2019s hand in the casket, if there is one. \u2014 Rosie Colosi, NBC News , 16 Oct. 2019",
"One of the requirements involves handwriting the names of 6,756 Americans who were killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. \u2014 Allen Kim, CNN , 27 Aug. 2019",
"After all, people have been handwriting in lowercase for over a thousand years, and even the melodramatic early Victorians didn\u2019t capitalize everything. \u2014 Gretchen Mcculloch, WIRED , 23 July 2019"
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"Her handwriting is nearly impossible to read.",
"she immediately recognized the handwriting on the envelope as that of her old college roommate",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The handwriting has been on the wall for a very long time. \u2014 Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"The handwriting seems pretty clear for Chicagoland Speedway. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 1 June 2022",
"The caveat, of course: If your handwriting isn\u2019t fairly legible, the apps won\u2019t work well. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 12 May 2022",
"Surveillance footage and a traffic stop in which officers obtained personal information about McDonald \u2013 such as his handwriting \u2013 allowed federal investigators to connect McDonald to the string of incidents, according to the affidavit. \u2014 Hannah Sarisohn, CNN , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Never the most prolific writer, Ms. Arensberg took pride in her deliberative approach to research and composition, filling piles of yellow legal pads with her crisp boarding-school handwriting . \u2014 New York Times , 21 Jan. 2022",
"So, using a Wacom tablet, Bateman wrote Violet\u2019s missing thoughts and feelings on top of 386 different frames of the film, framing Violet\u2019s face and body with her own handwriting . \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 16 Nov. 2021",
"The primary goal was to slow decline on a 48-point A.L.S. scale rating 12 physical abilities, including walking, speaking, swallowing, dressing, handwriting and breathing. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Results are not expected to be 100% accurate due to illegible handwriting and poor imaging. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"ordered handwrought andirons for the fireplace in their restored 18th-century saltbox",
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"The magic that Brian and Charles taps into is handwrought and underplayed, with Archer letting the weird details cast a low-key glow. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"Van Cleef & Arpels, for example, created a series of handwrought cuffs in gold that were favored by Jackie Onassis. \u2014 Jill Newman, Town & Country , 16 June 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Whether looking for an encounter to run tonight or a tavern to spin a tall tale, these boxes from Steamforged Games are handy for any Dungeon Master. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Such experience should come in handy as the company faces new rivals, supply chain bottlenecks, and a likely cooling of the economy. \u2014 Phil Wahba, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"While perhaps not a must-have in your toolbox, a heat gun is certainly handy for certain tasks. \u2014 Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics , 16 June 2022",
"Its sleep mode dials down the sound, helping you to snooze uninterrupted, and its timer is handy for saving on energy and costs. \u2014 Jessica Leigh Mattern, PEOPLE.com , 4 June 2022",
"Small details helped, like the internal partitions and convenient external stash pockets that are handy for tools and snacks. \u2014 Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"The stand is also very handy for taking a Zoom meeting. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 13 May 2022",
"This is especially handy for those bulky over-the-head cans that are popular among gamers. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 12 Apr. 2022",
"If the mold persists, try a bleach-and-water solution; an old toothbrush is handy for applying the solution and scrubbing the grout. \u2014 Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping , 3 Feb. 2022"
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"\u2014 Tom Clancy"
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"\u2014 Mark Starr",
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"\u2014 David Sirota"
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"Verb",
"He hung the painting on the wall.",
"We hung paper lanterns from the trees.",
"My grandmother used to hang the wash on a clothesline.",
"A photograph of her family hangs on the wall.",
"Several of her paintings are hanging in the Museum of Modern Art.",
"Your coat is hanging in the closet.",
"They plan to hang wallpaper in the hallway.",
"He let his arm hang down into the water.",
"They will hang him in the county jailhouse.",
"He was hanged for his crimes.",
"Noun",
"the hang of a skirt",
"anyone foolish enough to ski that hang would end up with a broken neck",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Two questions hang over the characters of American Buffalo, David Mamet's iconic 1975 play now in its third Broadway revival. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Inside, vaulted ceilings hang over a wall of stone in the great room, which overlooks the ocean through walls of windows. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Yet many years later, a cloud began to hang over the home\u2019s future in an era of redevelopment, combined with the original property being subdivided, according to Miller. \u2014 Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Straight black bangs hang over her intelligent, soulful brown eyes. \u2014 Willie J. Allen Jr., orlandosentinel.com , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The human rights abuses of the host, China, against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups hang over the Games. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Questions hang over Mayfield, both in terms of his health and performance. \u2014 Terry Pluto, cleveland , 4 Jan. 2022",
"But increasing coronavirus cases and warnings of a possible winter surge still hang over the Bay Area. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 Nov. 2021",
"In a time of national mourning, hang the flag at half-staff. \u2014 Leada Gore, Anchorage Daily News , 14 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This kind of historical hang -up doesn\u2019t fit neatly onto any one part of the American political spectrum\u2014or into any one part of history. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 6 May 2022",
"Veterans who return to the team for a second or third season start to get the hang of it. \u2014 David Wharton, Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"Above the fireplace hang slabs of bookmatched porcelain. \u2014 Hannah Selinger, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"The modern requirements for Special Forces entry are 49 push-ups in two minutes, 59 sit-ups in two minutes, a two-mile run in 15:12 or less, and six dead- hang pull-ups. \u2014 Ian Douglass, Men's Health , 28 Apr. 2022",
"In the Mason amusement park's opening weekend alone, the Warren County Communication Center received 15 hang -up 911 calls and 128 calls that were silent, Warren County Emergency Management Agency Director Melissa Bour said. \u2014 Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer , 22 Apr. 2022",
"That level of free-throw ineptitude tends to suggest a mental hang -up. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The hang -up in providing these seems to have been U.S. reluctance to provoke Mr. Putin with certain high-profile weapons, as with President Biden\u2019s refusal to assist with the transfer of 28 Polish MiG fighters to Ukraine. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022",
"So when considering if a hang -up is truly a deal breaker, Dennis suggests asking yourself if this is a barrier keeping you from moving forward. \u2014 Kasandra Brabaw, SELF , 26 Jan. 2022"
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"partly from Middle English hon , from Old English h\u014dn , transitive verb; partly from Middle English hangen , from Old English hangian , intransitive verb & transitive verb; both akin to Old High German h\u0101han , transitive verb, to hang, hang\u0113n , intransitive verb \u2014 more at cunctation":"Verb and Noun"
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"My mother doesn't want me hanging around the park alone.",
"\u2014 Judy Blume",
"When he was 10 years old, Lester taught him-self to windsurf by hanging around the Europeans and Canadian tourists who rented boards on the beach at Varadero.",
"\u2014 Sam Moses"
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"\u2014 David Calder"
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"if you hang around until my husband gets home, you can meet him"
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"to go to or spend time in often most summer afternoons, we'd hang at the municipal pool for a few hours"
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"antonyms":[],
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"a London slum where lots of unemployed young men could be seen hanging about",
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"\u2014 Sam Moses"
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"\u2014 David Calder"
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"if you hang around until my husband gets home, you can meet him"
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"1823, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"verb"
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"even though the young mother wanted the job, she still hung back because she wasn't sure if she should spend time away from her family"
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"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"circa 1719, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But there\u2019s reason to believe the Flash can keep running, even if Miller has to hang up their shoes. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"There was no better place for Norah Flatley to hang up her crown. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Following her first restoration, Sydney isn't quite ready to hang up her protective goggles. \u2014 Seventeen , 14 Apr. 2022",
"A decade ago, Udoka could have kept plugging away as a player but instead took Popovich up on his offer to hang up his sneakers and become an assistant. \u2014 Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News , 7 May 2022",
"The Sheriff\u2019s Office said if anyone receives this call or a similar one to hang up and call 911. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Ensure guests have a spot to kick off their shoes, hang up coats, and set down packages or purses inside the door. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Higuain\u2019s father, Jorge, had told an Argentine television show on Monday that Gonzalo was set to hang up his cleats upon conclusion of the current Inter Miami campaign, but the 34-year-old forward stated that was not the case. \u2014 Franco Panizo, sun-sentinel.com , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Traditionally, it\u2019s been claimed that esports competitors hang up their mice and keyboards because esports is a young person\u2019s game. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022"
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1952, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Then on Wednesday, Warbelow\u2019s lost power to its hangar on the east ramp of the Fairbanks airport. \u2014 Scott Mcmurren, Anchorage Daily News , 1 Jan. 2022",
"Sean Hannity \u2014 Jenner lamented that a friend was packing up his own airplane hangar to leave California. \u2014 Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times , 22 Sep. 2021",
"There\u2019s this huge hangar with the plane, motorbikes and trinkets. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"Hart\u2019s private airplane hangar and wrapped his jet in a mural of his own face to promote the premiere of Nick Cannon. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 8 Feb. 2022",
"There was one plane, though that Hindle didn\u2019t have to worry about procuring \u2014 the one Maverick is working on in a hangar early in the film begins. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 27 May 2022",
"Speaking in a hangar in Poland filled with crates of humanitarian aid, including diapers, destined for Ukraine, Blinken said diplomats would begin traveling to Lviv, in western Ukraine, ahead of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv reopening its doors. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Apr. 2022",
"An unconfirmed viral clip of what appears to be the Mriya in its hangar looks grim; however, the manufacturer of the plane has not yet released a statement on the exact condition of the aircraft, and whether or not any parts can be salvaged. \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 4 Mar. 2022",
"On Sunday, the stars aligned inside a sprawling airplane hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the first proper awards show of 2022 after the omicron variant threw awards season into chaos. \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Leslie Day, a friend who hangared her plane near Ms. Bera\u2019s at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Calif., outside San Diego, estimated in an interview that Ms. Bera had spent the equivalent of more than three years in the pilot\u2019s seat. \u2014 Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com , 12 Apr. 2018",
"The issue of high fuel prices came to the board\u2019s attention in late spring when airport tenants \u2013 which range from flight schools, to charter aircraft, to hangar renters \u2013 began to complain to board members. \u2014 Jordan Graham, Orange County Register , 25 Jan. 2017"
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"borrowed from French, \"shed open on one or more sides for storing agricultural products, farm implements, and vehicles,\" going back to Middle French, perhaps going back to Old Low Franconian *haimgarda- \"enclosure around a building,\" going back to West Germanic *haima- \"dwelling\" + *gar\u0111a- \"enclosure\" \u2014 more at home entry 1 , yard entry 1":"Noun",
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"\u02c8ha\u014b-g\u0259r"
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"verb"
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"\u201cWhy do you look so hangdog today",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"His Mickey is pleasantly mumbly, with a hangdog mien that\u2019s often crosscut with a don\u2019t-underestimate-me swagger. \u2014 Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune , 16 May 2022",
"Vic accepts his highly public and private humiliation with hangdog equanimity. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Segel earns some empathy as a hangdog Everyman, though his backstory remains such a deliberate blank that any insight is mostly gleaned from his blundering missteps and low-simmering misery. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Last year, for example, a player came into Brown\u2019s office with a hangdog look on his face explaining his mom was pulling him out of the program. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Another slip here is the casting of Effros in the lead role of Martin, a hangdog techie who travels from New York to Cape Cod to settle the estate of his late, estranged dad, Kenneth. \u2014 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Strong, who is now forty-two, has the hangdog face of someone who wasn\u2019t destined for stardom. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 5 Dec. 2021",
"Dupontel, with his frazzled hair and hangdog middle-management visage, is terrific as the melancholy singleton whose commonality with Suze\u2019s son is a stretch but serves to further connect the two potential lovebirds. \u2014 Mark Keizer, Variety , 24 Dec. 2021",
"With his hangdog mien and pained smile, Strong excels most in the quiet moments of Kendall's inner turmoil. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In a career spanning half a century, Hall was a quintessential character actor, a ubiquitous hangdog face whose doleful appearance could shroud a booming intensity and humble gravitas. \u2014 Jake Coyle, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"In a career spanning half a century, Hall was a ubiquitous hangdog face whose doleful, weary appearance could shroud a booming intensity and humble sensitivity. \u2014 Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"In a career spanning half a century, Hall was a quintessential character actor, a ubiquitous hangdog face whose doleful appearance could shroud a booming intensity and humble gravitas. \u2014 CBS News , 13 June 2022",
"The same is true this season for NoHo Hank, Mr. Cousineau and Fuches, offering showcases for Carrigan\u2019s uniquely weird line-readings, Winkler\u2019s hangdog perfection and Root occupying the middle ground between the two. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Futura repeated her cue, his expression hangdog but game. \u2014 Tad Friend, The New Yorker , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Mattfeld\u2019s head dipped into a slight hangdog bow, and her eyes went dead. \u2014 New York Times , 1 July 2021",
"Sam Lloyd, best known for his portrayal of hangdog lawyer Ted Buckland on Scrubs, has died. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 1 May 2020",
"Barry\u2019s hangdog , sad-eyed charm recalls one of Sandler\u2019s first stabs at more dramatic, or at least more emotional, material: 1999\u2019s Big Daddy. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 29 Dec. 2019"
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"type":[
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": a steak cut from the beef diaphragm":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The hanger steak with welcome parsnips, the bite of chimichurri and sweetness of fried shallots was a delicious departure from the usual steak frites ($29). \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Humanely certified meat has its own category and features an extremely large, two-foot long lamb kebab (meant for three), hanger steak and roasted chicken. \u2014 Sherrie Nachman, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"In addition to staples like tortas and enchiladas, this Mexican taqueria also offers special plates like chicken mole and hanger steak . \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Thai chile calamari, hanger steak , roast salmon, and chocolate hazelnut cake. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 27 Apr. 2021",
"But right there in second place, according to co-owner Miles Donnelly, is a plate of steak frites made with that unsung hero of the beef world: hanger steak . \u2014 Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com , 31 Dec. 2020",
"The Indian restaurant is preparing tandoori turkeys ($120) and tandoori turkey packages ($410 to $450) that include turkey and rack of lamb, Wagyu hanger steak or Kurobuta pork. \u2014 Jenn Harris Senior Food Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 Dec. 2020",
"The hanger steak was charred and cooked to order, coins of shallot tarragon butter keeping things juicy. \u2014 Lindsey Mcclave, The Courier-Journal , 27 Nov. 2019",
"And then there\u2019s the beef: Prime filet mignon, New York strip, dry-aged bone-in New York strip, and 21-day dry-aged bone-in ribeye; Angus filet mignon, hanger steak , porterhouse and prime rib; and wagyu filet mignon, ribeye and New York strip. \u2014 Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle , 18 Nov. 2019"
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": one that hangs around a person, place, or institution especially for personal gain":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1542, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-\u02cc\u00e4n",
"\u02c8ha\u014b-\u0259r-\u02cc\u022fn"
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"bloodsucker",
"free rider",
"freeloader",
"leech",
"moocher",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185830",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one who installs hangers and brackets for supporting pipelines on ships":[]
},
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"-m\u0259n",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112159",
"type":[
"noun"
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"noun"
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"antonyms":[
"declension",
"decline",
"declivity",
"descent",
"dip",
"downgrade",
"downhill",
"fall",
"hang"
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"definitions":{
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"Adjective",
"hanging branches blocked our way for a good part of the trail",
"light from a hanging chandelier filled the great hall",
"Noun",
"The hanging was scheduled for 3 o'clock.",
"He was sentenced to death by hanging .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Believe it or not, many modern garment bags come with extra storage features for things like laptops, shoes, and non- hanging clothes. \u2014 Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure , 6 May 2022",
"One such trip for Buttigieg happens to be to New Hampshire Monday to do two hanging -curveball events\u2014one on expanding commuter rail, the other on money in the infrastructure bill to improve the Manchester mill yard. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Then, just before the Fourth of July, two adult orioles began bringing tender morsels of yumminess to a hanging , pendulous nest in the tree. \u2014 Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com , 9 July 2021",
"After several unsuccessful ploys by his henchmen to save his life -- including one that would be attempted post- hanging -- Cardinella was down to one last try. \u2014 Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com , 13 Mar. 2021",
"To make hanging loop, bend wire in half; twist ends together. \u2014 Megan Fulweiler, Woman's Day , 9 Sep. 2019",
"The retailer\u2019s inspectors saw dangerous connections, including loose and hanging wires at several locations, according to the complaint. \u2014 Chris Dolmetsch, Fortune , 20 Aug. 2019",
"Move heavy objects to lower shelves and secure hanging objects, cabinet doors and appliances with safety straps, fasteners and adhesives. \u2014 Rose Meily, The Mercury News , 12 July 2019",
"So there\u2019s no more hanging out of the window for a quick puff. \u2014 Josh Duboff, Vanities , 12 Dec. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the aftermath, James refused to accept any responsibility, instead blaming Ayres and calling for his immediate hanging . \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 June 2022",
"The panel\u2019s leaders revealed that investigators heard testimony that Mr. Trump endorsed the hanging of his own vice president as a mob of his supporters descended on Congress. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"Rudolf Hess falsely pleaded amnesia at the Nuremberg trials, avoided hanging , and received a life sentence in Spandau Prison. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"There's a convenient snap loop for hanging and a small corner pocket that can hold all of your essentials. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"And Carla\u2019s handiwork can be seen in a colorful hanging quilt. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"The teak lounge chairs are by Henry Hall Designs, and the Spanish hanging lanterns were found in Belgium. \u2014 Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor , 10 May 2022",
"And what\u2019s not to love about the ample area for potting plants, not to mention the wooden pegs for hanging tools and a shelf above for pots and sundries",
"The Braves got to Whitlock in the third, scoring three runs on a sacrifice fly and a Travis d\u2019Arnaud two-run homer via a hanging slider. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 May 2022"
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"\u02c8ha\u014b-i\u014b"
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"bowing",
"declined",
"declining",
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"descendent",
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"drooping",
"droopy",
"hung",
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"nodding",
"pendulous",
"sagging",
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"weeping"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092840",
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"antonyms":[],
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": to display (something) outside as an announcement to the public":[
"hang out a sign/banner",
"\u2014 used chiefly in the phrase hang out a/one's shingle in the figurative sense \"to start a business, begin working professionally\"",
"Publishing was not as complicated a business \u2026 when young Alfred Knopf hung out his shingle nearly 70 years ago.",
"\u2014 John F. Baker",
"Back then big L.A. law firms rarely hired Jews \u2026 . So Sterling hung out a shingle in Boyle Heights and became a tireless advocate for his old neighbors, handling everything from divorces to personal injury cases.",
"\u2014 Franz Lidz"
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],
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"My mother told me not to hang out in bars because the sort of people I would meet there were the sort of people who hang out in bars.",
"\u2014 Calvin Trillin",
"Traditionally, most owners [of sports teams] are rich egomaniacs eager to hang out with athletes and get their names in the paper.",
"\u2014 George Vecsey"
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},
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"Noun",
"The park was their favorite hangout .",
"a favorite hangout of the golden-agers is the local community center",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"It's long been noted as a hangout for downtown workers, Detroit sports fans and journalists. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Highlights along the way include the Lone Cypress, a 250-year-old tree that's become the symbol of Pebble Beach, as well as Bird Rock, a hangout for sea lions and pelicans. \u2014 John Wogan, Travel + Leisure , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In 1963, the mall welcomed the Teen Canteen, a hangout for teenagers that took over a lower-level dance studio on the weekends. \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Julie Mabry, Owner One of the last lesbian bars in Texas, and one of the last 21 in the U.S., the Pearl Bar serves as a hangout for many. \u2014 Donnie Lopez, Chron , 18 June 2021",
"Shy Bird rode out the darker periods of the pandemic and now, as its third birthday approaches, the welcoming hangout that owner Andrew Holden envisioned has become a reality. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"What once was simply a bottle shop that happened to have a liquor license has turned into the newest hangout in the West Loop. \u2014 Chasity Cooper, Chicago Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The hangout with Bruce for a month was really quite a gift. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Flynn and his film crew pretended to be working on a food show at the hangout before walking up to their table and delivering the big news to Wolstenholm's immediate shock and excitement. \u2014 Hattie Lindert, PEOPLE.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The generous vestibule will also provide a place to hang out or store gear out of the sun and weather. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 15 June 2022",
"The store has tons of Legos and open play times when everyone can just hang out and build. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"The Louisville Zoo features over 1,200 animals in exhibits with themes from all over the world, including Africa, home to Simon and other African penguins, as well as Australia and South America, where the sloths hang out . \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 23 May 2022",
"In both real and simulation astronauts, Simpson and his colleagues have shown that some of the normally dormant viruses that hang out in our bodies suddenly started waking up again. \u2014 USA Today , 23 May 2022",
"This model is spacious enough for a sizable grill and provides enough coverage for the grill master plus a handful of friends to hang out in the shade with beverages in hand. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 9 May 2022",
"In both real and simulation astronauts, Simpson and his colleagues have shown that some of the normally dormant viruses that hang out in our bodies suddenly started waking up again. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 5 May 2022",
"Sure, the beach is a great place to hang out during the summer, but so are small towns. \u2014 Nancy Clanton, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"An emulsion is a combination of two or more liquid ingredients (such as oil and lemon juice) that normally couldn\u2019t hang out together. \u2014 Robin Miller, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022"
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"resort",
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"verb"
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},
"examples":[
"She woke up with a hangover .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the throbbing hangover from the carefree post\u2013Cold War years endures. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 27 June 2022",
"These are the most popular CBD gummy bears, which are formulated to alleviate stress, remove your moral hangover , and prevent you from having a nervous breakdown. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Pain is part of almost every hangover -- whether its a headache or muscle aches. \u2014 Craig Gunn, CNN , 6 Mar. 2022",
"The mornings after the Super Bowl tend to have certain things in common: indigestion, dishes stacked in the sink, empties in the recycling, maybe a mild hangover \u2014 and the iTunes chart filled with songs that were performed during the Halftime Show. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 14 Feb. 2022",
"One such absence in 2014 prompted rumors that Mr. Kim might have been grounded by a severe hangover , gout or even a coup. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2021",
"Notre Dame defied expectations of a hangover after an early-morning Thursday flight from Dayton, Ohio, with senior guard Cormac Ryan scoring 29 points on 7-of-9 three-point shooting. \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Sometimes first-time All-Stars experience a bit of a hangover when returning to action following the break. \u2014 C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The trajectory of Indiana\u2019s season seemed to peak and then immediately dive with its court-storm inducing win over Purdue followed by a lackluster effort in a loss to Michigan that showed clear signs of emotional hangover . \u2014 Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"1894, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8ha\u014b-\u02cc\u014d-v\u0259r",
"-\u02cc\u014d-v\u0259r"
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"noun"
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": large hollow baked clay sculptures placed on ancient Japanese burial mounds":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1931, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Japanese":""
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"\u02c8h\u00e4-n\u0259-\u02ccw\u00e4"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210621",
"type":[
"plural noun"
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"hank":{
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"definitions":{
": any of a series of rings or clips by which a jib or staysail is attached to a stay":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope. \u2014 Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books , 11 Feb. 2021",
"If a breeze is blowing, the air fills with the clamoring of jib hanks . \u2014 Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine , 10 June 2019",
"The Shaker-style peg rack could hold hanks of yarn. \u2014 Christine Pittel, House Beautiful , 1 Aug. 2012",
"Open the other days of the week, the Shaker Store sells hanks of yarn, Shaker seeds, herbal teas, and Shaker brooms. \u2014 Patricia Harris And David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2018",
"One photograph from the era shows a woman standing in a village as two men forcibly restrain her wrists; a third man grabs a hank of her blonde hair, his scissors poised to hack it away. \u2014 Ann Mah, Time , 6 June 2018",
"The next morning, the police and Victoria\u2019s parents found articles of the girl\u2019s clothing and a bloody hank of hair on a road near a sand pit in Mahwah. \u2014 David Stout, New York Times , 24 Sep. 2017",
"By the time he\u2019s done, the legendary Viennese doktor has been reduced to not much more than a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair. \u2014 Laura Miller, Slate Magazine , 5 Sep. 2017"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse h\u01ebnk hank; akin to Old English hangian to hang":""
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"\u02c8ha\u014bk"
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": on the same tack together and making equal speed":[
"sail hank for hank"
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"adverb"
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": to have a strong or persistent desire : yearn":[
"\u2014 often used with for or after"
]
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"By the middle of the winter, they were hankering for a warm day.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the 1960s and 1970s \u2014 the heyday of the sort of bipartisan Senate compromise that Biden often seems to hanker for \u2014 election turnout dropped, and many people complained that there was little difference between the two parties. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Oct. 2021",
"But many in the north still hanker for autonomy, as promised by amendments to the constitution adopted in 1987 but never fully implemented. \u2014 The Economist , 28 Nov. 2020",
"Some days even the dog that always wanted more of you seems to hanker for more space. \u2014 Rekha Basu, Star Tribune , 29 July 2020",
"Dani Bell was a British copywriter who hankered for her own marketing startup. \u2014 Clive Thompson, Wired , 19 May 2020",
"Sweaty, tired and hankering for something to eat other than trail mix, the final leg of a hike \u2014 the light at the end of the tunnel \u2014 holds the promise of relief, celebration and maybe a cold beer. \u2014 Mare Czinar, azcentral , 24 Apr. 2020",
"Even those not joining family and friends for a feast seem to hanker for the traditional flavors of the day, said McCabe. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Nov. 2019",
"Internally, such a production is most likely to appeal to more-experienced opera-goers, who more often are the types hankering for something new. \u2014 Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review , 21 Mar. 2020",
"They were rewarded with bellies full of chicken and a hankering for raw kale and Pepto-Bismol. \u2014 Jenn Harrisstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 25 Feb. 2020"
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"1627, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"probably from Dutch dialect hankeren":""
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"\u02c8ha\u014b-k\u0259r"
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"ache (for)",
"covet",
"crave",
"desiderate",
"desire",
"die (for)",
"hunger (for)",
"itch (for)",
"jones (for)",
"long (for)",
"lust (for ",
"pant (after)",
"pine (for)",
"repine (for)",
"salivate (for)",
"sigh (for)",
"thirst (for)",
"want",
"wish (for)",
"yearn (for)",
"yen (for)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-112058",
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"verb"
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"as in long (for) , yearn (for)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-132601",
"type":[
"verb"
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"hankering":{
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"\u2014 often used with for or after"
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"By the middle of the winter, they were hankering for a warm day.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the 1960s and 1970s \u2014 the heyday of the sort of bipartisan Senate compromise that Biden often seems to hanker for \u2014 election turnout dropped, and many people complained that there was little difference between the two parties. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Oct. 2021",
"But many in the north still hanker for autonomy, as promised by amendments to the constitution adopted in 1987 but never fully implemented. \u2014 The Economist , 28 Nov. 2020",
"Some days even the dog that always wanted more of you seems to hanker for more space. \u2014 Rekha Basu, Star Tribune , 29 July 2020",
"Dani Bell was a British copywriter who hankered for her own marketing startup. \u2014 Clive Thompson, Wired , 19 May 2020",
"Sweaty, tired and hankering for something to eat other than trail mix, the final leg of a hike \u2014 the light at the end of the tunnel \u2014 holds the promise of relief, celebration and maybe a cold beer. \u2014 Mare Czinar, azcentral , 24 Apr. 2020",
"Even those not joining family and friends for a feast seem to hanker for the traditional flavors of the day, said McCabe. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Nov. 2019",
"Internally, such a production is most likely to appeal to more-experienced opera-goers, who more often are the types hankering for something new. \u2014 Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review , 21 Mar. 2020",
"They were rewarded with bellies full of chicken and a hankering for raw kale and Pepto-Bismol. \u2014 Jenn Harrisstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 25 Feb. 2020"
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"1627, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from Dutch dialect hankeren":""
},
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"\u02c8ha\u014b-k\u0259r"
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"covet",
"crave",
"desiderate",
"desire",
"die (for)",
"hunger (for)",
"itch (for)",
"jones (for)",
"long (for)",
"lust (for ",
"pant (after)",
"pine (for)",
"repine (for)",
"salivate (for)",
"sigh (for)",
"thirst (for)",
"want",
"wish (for)",
"yearn (for)",
"yen (for)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101749",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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": in the manner of one that hankers":[
"kept thinking hankeringly about seeing his family again"
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083652",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
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"hankie":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": handkerchief":[]
},
"examples":[
"held a hankie up to his nose and blew vigorously",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Will this be a five- hankie tearjerker, or a Collateral Beauty\u2013style calamity",
"Stealing Home is a two- hankie weeper, and a cheap one at that. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 19 Feb. 2021",
"President Barack Obama handed over a hankie during a funeral. \u2014 Adrienne So, Wired , 5 Mar. 2020",
"Parting Shot The Broncos have become masters of the two- hankie weepy. \u2014 Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post , 19 Nov. 2019",
"And ready your hankie for a moment between Lady Mary and the Dowager Countess that\u2014no spoilers\u2014shows off a softer side to the tough-as-nails matriarch. \u2014 Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country , 16 Sep. 2019",
"Despite his relatively casual daily dress of bluejeans, collared shirt and dress shoes, Luke rarely left home without a hankie in his back pocket. \u2014 WSJ , 8 Mar. 2019",
"Keep a couple of hankies handy, because the play will likely soften the flintiest hearts in the audience. \u2014 F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com , 17 Apr. 2018",
"The six-step kits, which retail from $48 to $52, each include the dye formula, a silk hankie , protective gloves, string, and a manual on shibori\u2014the Japanese dyeing technique that produces those better-than-tie-dye patterns on fabric. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Sessums, Bon Appetit , 22 Feb. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"han d k erchief + -ie":""
},
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"\u02c8ha\u014b-k\u0113"
],
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"handkerchief",
"kerchief"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085230",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hankle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to involve (a person) in something by luring or enticing":[
"\u2014 usually used with in or on didn't want to join but they hankled him on"
],
": twist , entangle":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"frequentative of hank entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8ha\u014bk\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085233",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
]
},
"hanksite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mineral Na 22 K(SO 4 ) 9 (CO 3 ) 2 Cl consisting of white or yellow sulfate-carbonate-chloride of sodium and potassium occurring in hexagonal crystals":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Henry G. Hanks \u20201907 American mineralogist + English -ite":""
},
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"\u02c8ha\u014bk\u02ccs\u012bt"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092211",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"hanky-pank":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of various carnival games in which contestants may win small prizes for the exercise of simple skills (such as dart throwing)":[],
": marked by or derived from hanky-panky":[
"hanky-pank joints",
"\u2014 Life",
"their pockets full of hanky-pank money",
"\u2014 Herbert Gold"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"hanky-pank , adjective":"Noun",
"short for hanky-panky":"Adjective"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6ha\u014bk\u0113\u00a6pa\u014bk"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060829",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"hanky-panky":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": questionable or underhanded activity":[
"warned them not to try any hanky-panky",
"financial/political hanky-panky"
],
": sexual activity especially when regarded as somewhat improper":[
"We thought there was some hanky-panky going on between them.",
"\u2026 if there was hanky-panky in the office, it was entirely discreet \u2026",
"\u2014 Jonathan Galassi",
"Today's Judeo-Christian culture has not shed this propensity to cheat. (If there weren't any hanky-panky , we wouldn't need the seventh commandment.)",
"\u2014 Daniel Engber"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1841, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccha\u014b-k\u0113-\u02c8pa\u014b-k\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"gamesmanship",
"jiggery-pokery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090353",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hannahill":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of hannahill variant spelling of hanahill"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-073239",
"type":[]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mineral Mg 3 (NH 4 ) 2 H 4 (PO 4 ) 4 .8H 2 O consisting of a hydrous acid ammonium magnesium phosphate occurring in guano":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"German hannayit , from J. B. Hannay , 19th century Scottish chemist + German -it -ite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8han\u0113\u02cc\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140659",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hansenotic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": leprous sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from New Latin hansenosis , after such pairs as New Latin neurosis: English neurotic":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203425",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"hansh":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of hansh variant of hanch"
],
"examples":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-211623",
"type":[]
},
"hansom":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a light 2-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Franco Zeffirelli\u2019s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage \u2014 and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1847, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Joseph A. Hansom \u20201882 English architect":""
},
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"\u02c8han(t)-s\u0259m",
"\u02c8han-s\u0259m"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013318",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"hant":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of hant dialectal variant of haunt"
],
"examples":[],
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hant"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-133933",
"type":[]
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"definitions":{
": any of a family ( Hantaviridae and especially genus Orthohantavirus ) of bunyaviruses transmitted especially by rodent feces and urine and including viruses causing serious pulmonary disease or hemorrhagic fevers marked by renal necrosis":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The health officials concluded that the cases are an important reminder for doctors to consider hantavirus infections when diagnosing patients. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 4 Mar. 2022",
"The vast majority of these are viruses, in particular belonging to the hemorrhagic fever group (including Ebola, hantavirus , Lassa fever), flaviviruses (dengue, zika, yellow fever), and coronaviruses (MERS, and new strands of covid). \u2014 Annalisa Merelli, Quartz , 9 May 2022",
"People are rarely exposed to hantavirus because rodents tend to avoid humans. \u2014 Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Jan. 2022",
"It\u2019s common to find the hantavirus in local rodents. \u2014 Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Jan. 2022",
"It\u2019s common to find the hantavirus in local rodents. \u2014 Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Jan. 2022",
"It\u2019s common to find the hantavirus in local rodents. \u2014 Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Jan. 2022",
"It\u2019s common to find the hantavirus in local rodents. \u2014 Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Jan. 2022",
"That work ties into existing programs that monitor populations of skunks, bats, prairie dogs, gray foxes, birds and other animals for all kinds of disease-causing pathogens including rabies, West Nile virus, hantavirus and even the plague. \u2014 Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic , 15 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1984, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from hanta- (from Hantaan , river in South Korea near where rodents carrying the virus were collected 1974\u201378) + virus":""
},
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"\u02c8h\u0259n-",
"\u02c8han-",
"\u02c8han-t\u0259-\u02ccv\u012b-r\u0259s",
"\u02c8h\u00e4n-t\u0259-\u02ccv\u012b-r\u0259s",
"\u02c8h\u00e4n-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163255",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": handful":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"probably alteration of handful":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hant\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224539",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hang out":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to protrude and droop":[
"a dog with its tongue hanging out"
],
": to spend time idly or in relaxing or socializing":[
"just hanging out by the pool",
"My mother told me not to hang out in bars because the sort of people I would meet there were the sort of people who hang out in bars.",
"\u2014 Calvin Trillin",
"Traditionally, most owners [of sports teams] are rich egomaniacs eager to hang out with athletes and get their names in the paper.",
"\u2014 George Vecsey"
],
": to display (something) outside as an announcement to the public":[
"hang out a sign/banner",
"\u2014 used chiefly in the phrase hang out a/one's shingle in the figurative sense \"to start a business, begin working professionally\"",
"Publishing was not as complicated a business \u2026 when young Alfred Knopf hung out his shingle nearly 70 years ago.",
"\u2014 John F. Baker",
"Back then big L.A. law firms rarely hired Jews \u2026 . So Sterling hung out a shingle in Boyle Heights and became a tireless advocate for his old neighbors, handling everything from divorces to personal injury cases.",
"\u2014 Franz Lidz"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ha\u014b-\u02ccau\u0307t"
],
"synonyms":[
"haunt",
"purlieu",
"rendezvous",
"resort",
"stamping ground",
"stomping ground"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The park was their favorite hangout .",
"a favorite hangout of the golden-agers is the local community center",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"It's long been noted as a hangout for downtown workers, Detroit sports fans and journalists. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Highlights along the way include the Lone Cypress, a 250-year-old tree that's become the symbol of Pebble Beach, as well as Bird Rock, a hangout for sea lions and pelicans. \u2014 John Wogan, Travel + Leisure , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In 1963, the mall welcomed the Teen Canteen, a hangout for teenagers that took over a lower-level dance studio on the weekends. \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Julie Mabry, Owner One of the last lesbian bars in Texas, and one of the last 21 in the U.S., the Pearl Bar serves as a hangout for many. \u2014 Donnie Lopez, Chron , 18 June 2021",
"Shy Bird rode out the darker periods of the pandemic and now, as its third birthday approaches, the welcoming hangout that owner Andrew Holden envisioned has become a reality. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"What once was simply a bottle shop that happened to have a liquor license has turned into the newest hangout in the West Loop. \u2014 Chasity Cooper, Chicago Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The hangout with Bruce for a month was really quite a gift. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"In both real and simulation astronauts, Simpson and his colleagues have shown that some of the normally dormant viruses that hang out in our bodies suddenly started waking up again. \u2014 USA Today , 23 May 2022",
"This model is spacious enough for a sizable grill and provides enough coverage for the grill master plus a handful of friends to hang out in the shade with beverages in hand. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 9 May 2022"
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"Some, such as the virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease , go from person to person via unwashed hands. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Aug. 2021",
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"The three hospitals, among others, are also seeing high numbers of other respiratory viruses such as parainfluenza 3, rhinoviruses and enteroviruses that cause hand, foot and mouth disease and other conditions. \u2014 Maggie Fox, CNN , 26 Aug. 2021",
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"Some, such as the virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease , go from person to person via unwashed hands. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Aug. 2021"
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"We are working hand in glove with local officials to solve the problem.",
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"Church and state\u2014specifically, de Valera\u2019s long-dominant Fianna F\u00e1il party\u2014worked hand in glove , a regime of mutual reinforcement. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 14 Mar. 2022",
"At the center of this story was the emergence of an industrial labor movement working hand in glove with the party of Franklin Roosevelt. \u2014 Sam Rosenfeld, The New Republic , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Europe\u2019s border force works hand in glove with the Libyan coast guard to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean. \u2014 The Christian Science Monitor , 6 Dec. 2021",
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"This approach echoes old-fashioned ideas like careers of conviction and the fact that work and leisure can work hand in glove . \u2014 John F. Mcvea, Star Tribune , 27 June 2021",
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"Security should be built into every process, with software, IT and security teams working hand in glove , day by day. \u2014 Joshua Bixby, Forbes , 21 May 2021"
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"Climb to new heights, then activate a hang glider to reach an otherwise inaccessible cliffside. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Early prototypes of the modern hang glider and paraglider were invented by Francis Rogallo, a Stanford aeronautical engineer from Fresno, and his wife, Gertrude, in the 1950s. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 June 2021",
"From the main parking lot, walk a short distance toward the ocean bluffs to the viewing deck and launch platform for hang gliders . \u2014 Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com , 23 Nov. 2019",
"The distance from South Texas to the Canadian border is far - and quite further if the trip is being made on a hang glider . \u2014 Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle , 21 June 2019",
"Emergency responders tend to hang glider pilot Dan Buchanan after his glider crashed Saturday afternoon during the Gunfighter Skies air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base. \u2014 John Sowell, idahostatesman , 26 June 2018",
"Buchanan suffered a spinal injury in 1981 while landing a hang glider in bad weather. \u2014 John Sowell, idahostatesman , 26 June 2018",
"The second day of a weekend airshow at a U.S. Air Force base in southwestern Idaho has been dedicated to the veteran hang glider pilot who died in Saturday's crash. \u2014 Fox News , 3 June 2018",
"June 2, 2018 Buchanan suffered a spinal injury in 1981 while landing a hang glider in bad weather. \u2014 John Sowell, idahostatesman , 2 June 2018"
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"Consider CH Carolina Herrera\u2019s Capazo, which is handwoven and embroidered with colorful yarns shaped into Jasmine buds\u2014a basket bag with a bit of personality. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 13 May 2022",
"In one post, for instance, elder Rena Robertson holds up a handwoven rug that depicts imagery of the Bluebird Tree of Life. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 16 Dec. 2020",
"She was known by family and friends for her finely handwoven baskets. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com , 26 Aug. 2020",
"And, as of this week, Judy Turner has its own website, where Averett will offer his clothing in exclusive colors and drop new handwoven designs monthly. \u2014 Caitie Kelly, New York Times , 9 Apr. 2020",
"These days, its shops across the country sell all things cozy, from teapots to Christmas cake, but the brand\u2019s handwoven blankets\u2014in mohair, lamb's wool, cashmere and Donagel wool\u2014remain its signature ware. \u2014 Eimear Lynch, WSJ , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Rugs USA Rugs USA\u2019s sale is offering up to 60% off select rugs, ranging from handwoven jute and Moroccan tassel rugs to low-pile printed designs. \u2014 Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine , 13 Feb. 2020",
"Some of the pieces include an organic cotton quilt made by female artisans in India and a handwoven basket from Kenya. \u2014 Jennifer Fernandez, House Beautiful , 8 Nov. 2019",
"The center\u2019s shop at 42 Woodland St. in Hartford sells the artisans\u2019 handwoven shawls, scarves, bags, table linens, wall hangings, rugs and more. \u2014 Deborah Hornblow, courant.com , 23 Oct. 2019"
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"\u2014 Amanda Salis",
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"Naperville\u2019s progress from the days of the handcar moving through the prairie to the age of the steam engine train. \u2014 Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com , 9 Oct. 2021",
"The diplomats pushed the handcar for over a mile to get it across the border. \u2014 Patrick Reevell, ABC News , 26 Feb. 2021",
"The group of eight embassy staff and members of their families, including children, first took a 32-hour train ride and then a bus to reach the border area, the ministry said, where the handcar was readied and mounted on to the tracks. \u2014 Patrick Reevell, ABC News , 26 Feb. 2021",
"This column picks up the story after the thieves abandoned a railroad handcar used to escape from New Windsor and joined an accomplice waiting in Westminster with a horse and carriage for the rest of the getaway. \u2014 Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 24 Oct. 2020"
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"Choose from a matte black or glossy frame and select one from the total of 49 possible color combinations for a truly personalized handset . \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The laptop\u2019s new design should be a big selling point for the handset . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 30 May 2022",
"Users of Apple's iPhones are able to pay for things by tapping their handset 's against payment devices\u2014but only using the manufacturer's own Apple Pay app. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 2 May 2022",
"The same leaker who provided most of the aforementioned Galaxy Z Fold 4 details also listed the handset \u2019s main specs. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 9 June 2022",
"Kenzzi's handset device is quite popular, especially among YouTube vloggers. \u2014 Tatiana Velasco, Good Housekeeping , 11 May 2022",
"In 2009, the team at BitBoys also ended up working at Qualcomm after AMD sold its handset division to the mobile chip company. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 3 May 2022",
"Then, earlier this week, Google wiped the handset remotely, erasing the buyer\u2019s data along with it. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 2 June 2022",
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"The late Wiley, with his long handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair, didn\u2019t know if Utah State would win. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 May 2022",
"Alex Verdoorn has a handlebar mustache and an exquisite sense of fashion. \u2014 Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Lane also injects his character with a number of McAllister\u2019s signature traits: McAllister did indeed have a Southern accent and an impressive handlebar mustache . \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Tears run down his cheeks into his handlebar mustache and beard. \u2014 Danielle Bacher, Billboard , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The band previously teased the track at Lollapalooza, where Durst took his new look \u2014 a silver mane and handlebar mustache \u2014 out for a spin. \u2014 Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone , 30 Sep. 2021",
"The couple emblazoned the restaurant with a cheeky panda bear dressed in a sombrero and a handlebar mustache . \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 16 July 2021",
"One of the cartoons features a firefighter decked out with a handlebar mustache and 71s on his suspenders and hat. \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com , 14 July 2021",
"Early customers could download a shooting target from the company\u2019s Facebook page that featured a bowtied man with a handlebar mustache . \u2014 New York Times , 14 July 2021"
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"In the wake of an injury to star right fielder Mookie Betts, a lack of obvious replacement options in the organization and a monthlong slump from the lineup at large, the Dodgers felt compelled in recent days to seek out another right- handed hitter. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"The Brewers had leadoff hitter Christian Yelich, a former MVP and a left- handed hitter, due up fourth in the inning. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 19 June 2022",
"Expectations should be tempered for all prospects, Greene included, but this left- handed hitter has all the tools to emerge immediately. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 17 June 2022",
"Manager Terry Francona says Palacios, a left- handed hitter, has shown the proper kind of preparation for the job. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 10 June 2022",
"The Giants had owned Colorado dating back to last season, but manager Gabe Kapler\u2019s recent run of sensible pitching moves backfiring continued when Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez gave up his first homer by a left- handed hitter since 2019. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 June 2022",
"Bartczak, a left- handed hitter, couldn\u2019t have been better Friday. \u2014 Patrick Z. Mcgavin, Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"Rendon homered in his first major league at-bat as a left- handed hitter in the eighth when Phillips, usually an outfielder, took the mound in the blowout. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 May 2022",
"Moreover, Kelly is a right- handed hitter in a lefty heavy lineup. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 9 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Nearby, Brundib\u00e1r, who plays a hand organ , becomes angry and drives them off. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star , 16 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Pilot's other physical controls include an electric starter switch (a pull-start option is there for backup), a hand brake that's perfect for drift duty, and a shift lever with forward, neutral, and reverse gears. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 26 May 2022",
"As these flood back, developer Double Fine lets the stylistic hand brake off with a psychedelic platforming sequence that culminates in a jubilant musical number. \u2014 Lewis Gordon, Wired , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Unstoppable in the first quarter, Florida yanked the hand brake in the second only to see Alabama recover to get just enough to survive the offensive onslaught from the No. 11 Gators. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 19 Sep. 2021",
"The Landie also lacks that other rallying favorite: a hydraulic hand brake . \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 19 Aug. 2021",
"After passengers were evacuated, an attempt to tow the train to a rail yard resulted in it rolling 137 feet before a worker was able to apply a hand brake . \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Many ATVs only have a hand brake on the left handlebar for the front brakes, and a foot brake for the rear. \u2014 Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life , 14 Oct. 2020",
"Although there\u2019s a front hand brake on the left side, laziness made us coaster-brake converts. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Test Team, Popular Mechanics , 17 July 2020",
"The episode ends with a flashback to the accident, caused when Jamie pulls the hand brake to stop Nick from his manic speeding down the dark Dorchester back roads. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 6 Feb. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each hangtag grants entry for one carload of day-use visitors (up to 9 people). \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Apr. 2022",
"For unstaffed entrances, display it either via a hangtag on your rearview mirror or on your dashboard, signature side up. \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online , 23 Feb. 2022",
"As any Coach stan will notice, iconic brand motifs like the brand's animal friends, ladylike tea roses, and hangtag charm feature heavily in the packaging. \u2014 Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com , 2 Mar. 2021",
"And outdoor enthusiasts should remember that social responsibility involves more than a hangtag telling us our gear is environmentally friendly. \u2014 Joe Lindsey, Outside Online , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Cost is $5 for a single-day admission or $10 for an annual hangtag . \u2014 Cincinnati.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
"Guests with prepaid parking or parking hangtags /passes should follow the directions listed on the pass. \u2014 Ed Masley, azcentral , 20 Aug. 2019",
"Fenwick purchases 265 hangtags for students\u2019 on-street parking needs in the S4, SB4 and SB5 parking areas near the school, village officials said. \u2014 Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com , 16 Aug. 2019",
"Wicked Thrift \u2014 the Fashion Revolution This nine-year-old shop doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously \u2014 a mannequin is seated at a piano near the entrance, and hangtags have cheeky descriptions. \u2014 Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com , 23 July 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Neanderthal tools found at the site include a hand ax and small flint tools known as scrapers. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 21 Dec. 2021",
"While making a hand ax basically involves improving an existing rock\u2019s shape, making blades and points means the toolmaker must have begun by first visualizing the ideal shape of such a tool, then reworking the rock to serve that purpose. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 Oct. 2020",
"Olduvai Gorge is the only other bone hand ax dated to more than one million years ago. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 July 2020",
"The last hand ax at the site dates to 499,000 years ago, before the gap. \u2014 Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS , 15 Mar. 2018",
"The authors found that for roughly 700,000 years, from 1.2 million to 499,000 years ago, the hominids who populated this basin relied almost entirely on one simple, all-purpose stone tool known as a hand ax . \u2014 Deborah Netburn, latimes.com , 15 Mar. 2018",
"The hand axes do disclose evident aesthetic choices. \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 1 Feb. 2018",
"For example, the hand axes had been replaced by smaller, more sophisticated tools that could be attached to sticks and hurled through the air. \u2014 Deborah Netburn, latimes.com , 15 Mar. 2018",
"About 900,000 years ago, a skull cap shows that the human ancestor H. erectus lived at Olorgesailie and used big Acheulean hand axes and scrapers to butcher meat. \u2014 Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS , 15 Mar. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Scribbled over and across every block in the neighborhood is hangul , the Korean alphabet, announcing restaurants and coffee shops, dry cleaners and florists, grocery stores and test-prep schools and karaoke bars. \u2014 Steph Cha, Travel + Leisure , 26 Feb. 2022",
"But nearly 600 years ago, a scientifically minded Korean king introduced hangul , an indigenous writing system often called the best designed syllabary in the world. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2019"
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"This hand blender comes with nine speeds and convenient attachments like a milk frother to make lattes and cappuccinos. \u2014 Katy Severson, chicagotribune.com , 11 Apr. 2021",
"Remove from heat and pur\u00e9e using a hand blender , or allow to cool until no longer steaming and pur\u00e9e in batches in a stand blender. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
"For a bigger batch, make it in a large pot and use a hand blender to combine. \u2014 Megan Murphy, Robb Report , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Remove the bay leaf and whisk or use a hand blender to break down any granules and add hot water if the mixture becomes too thick for your preference. \u2014 Marianne Mychaskiw, Marie Claire , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Plus, a KitchenAid hand blender that can easily whip up smoothies is on sale for just $30. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE.com , 15 July 2021",
"This hand blender may just become your new favorite kitchen tool. \u2014 Lizzy Briskin, chicagotribune.com , 14 Apr. 2021",
"Pick up big savings on this powerful hand blender and whip up soups, smoothies and sauces in seconds. \u2014 Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored , 29 Nov. 2020",
"An immersion hand blender can add significant convenience - and having one is nice but not everyone has one. \u2014 Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com , 20 Oct. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There is even another study on handedness and season of birth, that shows people born from March to July are more likely to be left handed. \u2014 Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping , 19 May 2022",
"Popovich would not let the Spurs use their short- handedness as a crutch after Saturday\u2019s loss, noting the Pacers were without starting center Myles Turner, starting guard Malcolm Brogdon and backup point guard T.J. McConnell. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Other primates exhibit varying degrees of lateralization, but only humans show such a high frequency of right- handedness . \u2014 David W. Frayer, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2022",
"That even- handedness applies to all her characters. \u2014 Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Even with the Chargers\u2019 inconsistency, Los Angeles should cover the spread because of Pittsburgh\u2019s short- handedness . \u2014 New York Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Such heavy- handedness could also motivate our pharmaceutical industry to move more of their operations offshore, thereby diminishing U.S. employment, tax revenues and access to important medications. \u2014 Rita Numerof, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021",
"One surprise of the Biden era has been the ham- handedness of foreign policy management. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 21 Sep. 2021",
"The message of all this heavy- handedness is two-pronged. \u2014 Justin Davidson, Curbed , 31 Aug. 2021"
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"no system yet in place for handing out room assignments",
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"More than 130 were helped with county benefit programs, nearly 200 hygiene kits were handed out, 44 vaccines were administered and a nurse offered more than a 130 doses of Narcan, which can reverse overdoses, according to the handout . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In most cases, government subsidies of sports stadiums are gigantic wastes of money \u2014 but the $1 billion handout being prepared for the billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills is a giant waste of money that has the stink of corruption on it. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Some armchair critics called the deal a handout to a millionaire or corporate welfare. \u2014 John Igliozzi, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"RICK HESS - Biden admin found time to assail public charter schools, denounce state tests as an attack on public schools and give a taxpayer handout for college loans. \u2014 Jack Durschlag, Fox News , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The average underserved families are not just looking for a handout . \u2014 Moms Helping Moms, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"But the Carex website shows the rail ($50.37) installed only on tubs with double walls and a flat rim, and illustrations in the installation handout are similar. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Apr. 2022",
"According to one handout , the wipes are a fabric, not paper. \u2014 cleveland , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Governor Hochul is spearheading the handout project. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 23 Apr. 2022"
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"Environmental and social issues often go hand in hand . \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"Today, public assistance, stringent work requirements, and family policing go hand in hand . \u2014 Kendra Hurley, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"In Nina Cooke John\u2019s design practice, art and architecture go hand in hand . \u2014 Carly Olson, ELLE Decor , 13 June 2022",
"Luckily, the Bible offers tons of guidance on the topic, along with helpful Bible verses about healing and Bible verses about love, which can go hand in hand with forgiveness. \u2014 Ian Palmer, Country Living , 9 June 2022",
"While conversations about bots and human authentication often go hand in hand , the latter often involves considerations of multiple accounts and anonymity. \u2014 Jessica Maddox, The Conversation , 3 May 2022",
"Many individuals striving to live simple, more meaningful lives find that minimalism and spirituality go hand in hand . \u2014 Cathi Douglaswriter, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"These communities are gateways to vast national parks, Native American heritage and Underground Railroad history, where qualities such as preservation, pride and perseverance often go hand in hand . \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022",
"Affordability and quality hair care go hand in hand with Acure\u2019s hair products. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sloss Furnace will feature sport climbing, Parkour and beach handball . \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 4 July 2022",
"In the 33rd minute, NYCFC was handed what could have been a lifeline when it was awarded a penalty kick following a Tyler Blackett handball in FCC's penalty area. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 30 June 2022",
"The Lions almost had a chance to score just before halftime when referee Rosendo Mendoza called a penalty for an apparent handball inside the box on Zeca. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel , 18 June 2022",
"The handball wasn't initially called but was confirmed after a video review of the play. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 29 May 2022",
"In the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal, Diego Maradona scored a handball goal against England. \u2014 Nuala Walsh, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"In his spare time, the short but strong Rivera became a champion handball player. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The penalty kick was awarded for a handball in Cincinnati's penalty area by center back Nick Hagglund. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 29 May 2022",
"The club\u2019s directors took lessons from Bar\u00e7a\u2019s handball , basketball, and futsal teams about contract offers and roster construction, because the pay scale in those sports was closer to women\u2019s soccer than the astronomical sums on the men\u2019s side. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"Not bad for a paper that began life being cranked out on a primitive handpress at 125 copies an hour. \u2014 Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2021",
"Not bad for a paper that began life being cranked out on a primitive handpress at 125 copies an hour. \u2014 Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2021",
"Not bad for a paper that began life being cranked out on a primitive handpress at 125 copies an hour. \u2014 Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2021",
"Not bad for a paper that began life being cranked out on a primitive handpress at 125 copies an hour. \u2014 Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2021",
"Not bad for a paper that began life being cranked out on a primitive handpress at 125 copies an hour. \u2014 Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2021",
"Not bad for a paper that began life being cranked out on a primitive handpress at 125 copies an hour. \u2014 Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2021",
"Not bad for a paper that began life being cranked out on a primitive handpress at 125 copies an hour. \u2014 Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2021",
"Not bad for a paper that began life being cranked out on a primitive handpress at 125 copies an hour. \u2014 Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2021"
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"The 40-pound box has a handle , easily pours from a hole in the side, and should last about two months. \u2014 Ali Kessler, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022",
"Conveying this aspect of business continuity is crucial to key stakeholders, including the investment community, and shows that the firm has a handle on its strategic direction moving forward. \u2014 Curtis Sparrer, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Trusting that God has a handle on our lives is our only source of hope. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 22 June 2022",
"Smalls worried that Wesley and her team \u2014 many of whom had been focused on helping with the first warehouse campaign \u2014 didn\u2019t have a good handle on the problems and frustrations of workers inside their building. \u2014 Greg Jaffe, Washington Post , 12 June 2022",
"While Game 1 devolved into an Oklahoma home run derby in the very first inning, Texas had a better handle on the Sooners to begin the rematch. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 9 June 2022",
"But this sci-fi, fantasy crowd pleaser has a real handle on what exactly makes a dude into a father. \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"The forecast models do not have a good handle on this possible storm and are forecasting completely two different outcomes. \u2014 Judson Jones, CNN , 31 May 2022",
"There are still logistics about teams putting players\u2019 names in the portal, and players have a chance to withdraw, but by the end of this week, college football should have a handle on player movement for this season. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, cleveland , 2 May 2022",
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"No word yet on how the Apple TV+ version, from British writer Katherine Jakeways, will handle the final parts of the story line. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"What happens next will be closely watched for ideas on how to handle displacement on a massive scale. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Amy Gallo breaks down eight different profiles of difficult coworkers\u2014from the know-it-all to the insecure boss\u2014offering the reader strategies on how to handle and work with each of them without losing your mind. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 26 June 2022",
"Like Shaq, defenses still have no clue how to handle Curry in the halfcourt. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"Good thing Davis knows how to handle a curveball or two. \u2014 Sandra Gonzalez, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Deakins also said the county has to decide how to handle crowding at the jail. \u2014 Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online , 22 June 2022",
"High-level planning has already begun on how to handle the financial reporting, Mr. Banati said. \u2014 Kristin Broughton, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"Hamrick has some advice on how to handle the current monetary environment: pay down debt and look to higher-yielding savings accounts. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 15 June 2022"
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"The committee showed video of Edwards and other officers being pushed back with bike racks when Edwards\u2019 chin clipped a handrail , and her head connected with a concrete step. \u2014 Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The original wrought iron handrail lines the stairs up to the bedrooms, which can also be accessed by elevator. \u2014 Lauren Beale, Forbes , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Advertise a handrail as the world\u2019s largest piece of licorice, and charge skeptics to take a bite because really, who could tell? \u2014 Pat Myers, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"The handrail looks like the flat piece and the newel post like a thick scroll. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Workers wearing the suits tested an escalator handrail for the coronavirus at the main press center one day. \u2014 Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Like the railing around a deck, or the handrail alongside some stairs. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The front steps were still crumbling, and still nobody had bothered to build a handrail for the stairs. \u2014 Miriam Toews, The New Yorker , 7 Feb. 2022",
"To make stairs more visible, use a different paint color on the top and bottom steps, and make sure there is a handrail and motion-sensor lighting. Bathroom. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022"
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"Jiang Zemin, China\u2019s then-leader, gave his tacit support to Tung Chee-hwa, the first chief executive, by singling him out for a long handshake at a 1996 meeting in Beijing. \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"When Moss, shooting the scene, held out her hand for a handshake , Hamm surprised her by kissing it and not letting go, and the camera caught Moss choking up. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In the postgame handshake line, Yzerman whispered to Lindros that his day soon would come. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 7 June 2022",
"Following the handshake line, the full roster and coaching staff congregated in front of the packed sections of Cougars supporters opposite their bench, soaking in the moment. \u2014 Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Howard was suspended for five games late in the season for hitting a Wisconsin assistant during a postgame handshake line. \u2014 Jim Vertuno, ajc , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Izzo and Krzyzewski shared a hug to start the post-game handshake line. \u2014 USA TODAY , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Howard himself had to learn some lessons about composure when he was suspended for five games late in the season for hitting a Wisconsin assistant during a postgame handshake line. \u2014 Michael Marot, orlandosentinel.com , 20 Mar. 2022",
"In the White House, there is a mounting disbelief that the lawmakers would abandon their handshake agreement. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 27 July 2021"
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"If the purpose of this essay were to merely shout at the heavens, proclaiming that the world is going to hell in a handbasket because of rampant biblical illiteracy on Earth, many may be tempted to dismiss my concerns \u2014 flippantly enough. \u2014 Luther Ray Abel, National Review , 17 Sep. 2020",
"At least as much as an unemployed football coach and his hell-in-a- handbasket Mayberry RFD nostalgia. \u2014 al , 10 Dec. 2019",
"On the 1st hole, a gone-to-hell-in-a- handbasket iron plops down in the second cut. \u2014 Jack Mccallum, SI.com , 27 June 2018",
"Theft, West Bagley Road: Police hope to identify and arrest a man who stole a handbasket filled with merchandise at about 3:45 p.m. July 24 from Dollar General, 390 West Bagley Road. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com , 27 July 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In this 2003 episode, Cartman wins first place in a Latino culture contest by showcasing his special guest, Jennifer Lopez, who turns out to be a crude hand puppet . \u2014 Jason Lipshutz, Billboard , 2 Feb. 2022",
"This iteration makes a gesture like a hand puppet in repose, or the letter A in American Sign Language. \u2014 Lauren Mechling, Town & Country , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Second place receives a fabulous soft rubbery hand puppet depicting a, well, some indeterminate aquatic creature; guesses included a shark, barracuda, alligator and dinosaur. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 July 2021",
"Other political efforts dovetailed with his art, which veered from grand 80-foot-long sculptures to whimsical hand puppets and felt hats. \u2014 Harrison Smith, Washington Post , 8 Sep. 2019",
"For those willing to really take the costume to the next level, Yandy is also selling hand puppets , a wig, belt and socks separately. \u2014 Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com , 19 Sep. 2019",
"Many said the use of the hand puppet , in addition to the colonel not raising his own right hand and not remembering the oath, was disrespectful. \u2014 Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News , 19 Apr. 2018",
"Clockwise, from top left, are hand puppets , a busy blanket, baby blankets, a comfort animal, comfort dolls and baby hats. \u2014 Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News , 10 July 2019",
"Pumpernickel Puppets will perform The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Lion and the Mouse using colorful, friendly hand puppets . \u2014 courant.com , 26 June 2019"
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"The 40-pound box has a handle , easily pours from a hole in the side, and should last about two months. \u2014 Ali Kessler, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022",
"Conveying this aspect of business continuity is crucial to key stakeholders, including the investment community, and shows that the firm has a handle on its strategic direction moving forward. \u2014 Curtis Sparrer, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Trusting that God has a handle on our lives is our only source of hope. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 22 June 2022",
"Smalls worried that Wesley and her team \u2014 many of whom had been focused on helping with the first warehouse campaign \u2014 didn\u2019t have a good handle on the problems and frustrations of workers inside their building. \u2014 Greg Jaffe, Washington Post , 12 June 2022",
"While Game 1 devolved into an Oklahoma home run derby in the very first inning, Texas had a better handle on the Sooners to begin the rematch. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 9 June 2022",
"But this sci-fi, fantasy crowd pleaser has a real handle on what exactly makes a dude into a father. \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
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"No word yet on how the Apple TV+ version, from British writer Katherine Jakeways, will handle the final parts of the story line. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"What happens next will be closely watched for ideas on how to handle displacement on a massive scale. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Amy Gallo breaks down eight different profiles of difficult coworkers\u2014from the know-it-all to the insecure boss\u2014offering the reader strategies on how to handle and work with each of them without losing your mind. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 26 June 2022",
"Like Shaq, defenses still have no clue how to handle Curry in the halfcourt. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"Good thing Davis knows how to handle a curveball or two. \u2014 Sandra Gonzalez, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Deakins also said the county has to decide how to handle crowding at the jail. \u2014 Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online , 22 June 2022",
"High-level planning has already begun on how to handle the financial reporting, Mr. Banati said. \u2014 Kristin Broughton, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"Hamrick has some advice on how to handle the current monetary environment: pay down debt and look to higher-yielding savings accounts. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 15 June 2022"
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"He got some amazing hang time on that pass.",
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"One criticism of Araiza from an NFL perspective was his hang time . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The Buffalo News reported that, per stats kept by Greg Hart and posted at phillycovercorner.com, Araiza\u2019s average hang time was just 3.92 seconds, which trailed Stout and Camarda. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"That evening, a few dozen of the Latitude Watersound pioneers\u2014several of whom had moved in already, the rest of whom were awaiting the completion of construction\u2014gathered for some happy-hour hang time at the Margaritaville restaurant in Panama City. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"In and amid all that was one punt that had a 5.3-second hang time . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Stories about Guy wouldn\u2019t be complete without one about his legendary hang time . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Hold the position, keeping your front knee raised high for a moment of hang time . \u2014 Outside Online , 29 July 2020",
"That particular shot seemed to have a lot of hang time , and a bit of a knuckle to it. \u2014 Steve Smith, courant.com , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Dawson said for every 10-degree drop in temperature, a kicker will often lose a yard or two in distance and a half-second in hang time . \u2014 Terry Pluto, cleveland , 6 Dec. 2021"
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"Investigators determined a man had taken the box out of his apartment and wheeled it through the complex in a handcart , police said. \u2014 Fox News , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Based on the true story of a man who rescued a handcart company. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 July 2021",
"Now at the other end of the ghost tunnel, Cora and Molly get off the handcart and emerge from a cave. \u2014 Steffan Triplett, Vulture , 17 May 2021",
"Sorokin had to push the handcart for a kilometer (0.6 miles), part of which included a bridge over the Tumen River that separates Russia from North Korea. \u2014 Paula Hancocks And Cnn Staff, CNN , 26 Feb. 2021",
"This week \u2014 that's February 24th through 29th \u2014 fill your handcart with $20 worth of any hair products and you'll be rewarded with a $5 Target gift card. \u2014 Megan Decker, refinery29.com , 24 Feb. 2020",
"Some people arrived in campers, in it for the long haul; some came in minivans, entered the tasting room with handcarts , and left with an axle-straining number of cases of wine. \u2014 Amiel Stanek, Bon App\u00e9tit , 13 Dec. 2019",
"The church sponsored 10 handcart expeditions over five years, all of them disasters due to poor planning and lack of support. \u2014 Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post , 13 June 2019",
"Instead of riding in wagons, impoverished church immigrants, most from the British Isles, pushed handcarts filled with their belongings, five people to each cart. \u2014 Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post , 13 June 2019"
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"Holding a hand lens to its bloom, Knapp showed me how this DYC was not a single blossom but a bouquet. \u2014 Marion Renault, The New Republic , 20 Dec. 2021",
"There were veins to count and stubble to inspect under hand lens . \u2014 Marion Renault, The New Republic , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Wearing a face mask and latex gloves, Clancy examined what was inside each packet, either with a hand lens or under a microscope. \u2014 Chris Heath, The Atlantic , 15 July 2021",
"Culex pipiens \u2014and take a look at it under a microscope or a powerful hand lens . \u2014 Daisy Alioto, The New York Review of Books , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Occasionally, one of them would cradle it in one palm and bring a hand lens to it with the other, inspecting the carnivorous plant that was their bounty. \u2014 Marion Renault, New York Times , 13 Aug. 2019",
"The city\u2019s old concrete yields everything from tiny specimens demanding close inspection with a hand lens to a gigantic cliff fern almost 6 feet across. \u2014 Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times , 19 May 2019",
"Using a combination of powerful microscopes, hand lenses , and 3D reconstructions, the researchers looked for tell-tale signs of deliberate cutting on the cow skull. \u2014 Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS , 19 Apr. 2018"
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"The latest addition to the line is the soon-to-launch Tube collection, which consists of a pendant and a vanity sconce both anchored by a single handblown glass cylinder paired with a brass, bronze or nickel sphere affixed to either end. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The handblown glass cloche keeps smoke from filling the room instead of the rocks glass. \u2014 Stephanie Cain, Fortune , 9 June 2021",
"There is, for instance, the handblown Murano glass by Carlo Moretti, who also produced the champagne glasses for Aldo\u2019s. \u2014 Spencer Bailey, Town & Country , 28 Mar. 2021",
"Positioned on clear and lengthy tips, baubles and bubbles mingled in a fluid form that called to mind handblown glass and frozen raindrops. \u2014 Calin Van Paris, Vogue , 22 Jan. 2021",
"This simplistic chandelier is comprised of handblown , clear-glass bubbles. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 29 Oct. 2020",
"The French perfumer Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Malle puts his singular stamp on tuberose with this handblown white and vermillion glass candle. \u2014 Zoe Ruffner, Vogue , 14 Oct. 2020",
"His pieces are exquisite and classy \u2014 martini and whiskey glasses, dessert bowls, crystal ice cube tic-tac-toe sets and handblown cheese domes. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Nov. 2019",
"The Czech Embassy opens its doors Saturday so shoppers can browse handblown glass ornaments and Bohemian jewelry while sipping mulled wine and listening to carols. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Nov. 2019"
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"\u2014 often used in the phrase hang in there If there was ever a mismatched couple it was this one, but the children begged them to hang in there . \u2014 Joseph Wambaugh If she hung in there long enough, he would change. It just took a lot of patience with a little reasoning. \u2014 Gloria Naylor"
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"The committee showed video of Edwards and other officers being pushed back with bike racks when Edwards\u2019 chin clipped a handrail , and her head connected with a concrete step. \u2014 Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The original wrought iron handrail lines the stairs up to the bedrooms, which can also be accessed by elevator. \u2014 Lauren Beale, Forbes , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Advertise a handrail as the world\u2019s largest piece of licorice, and charge skeptics to take a bite because really, who could tell? \u2014 Pat Myers, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"The handrail looks like the flat piece and the newel post like a thick scroll. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Workers wearing the suits tested an escalator handrail for the coronavirus at the main press center one day. \u2014 Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Like the railing around a deck, or the handrail alongside some stairs. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The front steps were still crumbling, and still nobody had bothered to build a handrail for the stairs. \u2014 Miriam Toews, The New Yorker , 7 Feb. 2022",
"To make stairs more visible, use a different paint color on the top and bottom steps, and make sure there is a handrail and motion-sensor lighting. Bathroom. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022"
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"His purpose at the hangman \u2019s pub is ultimately revealed, but the real thrill is watching Allen play off of other characters, particularly Gaby French\u2019s Shirley, Harry Wade\u2019s teenage daughter. \u2014 Christopher Barnard, Vogue , 9 June 2022",
"But before the sentence could be carried out, Muharrami was suddenly spared the hangman \u2019s rope. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"In the United States, the hangman 's noose has come to symbolize brutality and the country's history of lynchings and hatred toward Black people. \u2014 Nicole Chavez, CNN , 28 Apr. 2022",
"But do not pity the poor hangman with no one to kill; his self-pity is more than sufficient. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Harry is England's second-best hangman , and he's faced with a crisis as Britain abolishes hanging as a form of execution. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The hangman 's gallows sitting out there on our National Mall. \u2014 CNN , 27 July 2021",
"The new Israeli prime minister this morning, Naftali Bennett, called him the hangman of Tehran, called his election a wake-up call for the West. \u2014 ABC News , 20 June 2021",
"In America, the hangman 's noose has come to symbolize a deplorable act of brutality, along with unbound... \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 26 May 2021"
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"\u2014 Annie Murphy Paul"
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"Even after her handler berates her for lying to him, Cassie brushes it off and is surprised that her employment could be terminated. \u2014 Harika Manne, refinery29.com , 22 May 2022",
"Ben Schwartz's amped-teenager turn as Sonic's voice is easier to like this time around, and that's largely because the plot takes him far from his Everyman human handler Tom (James Marsden, Westworld). \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2022",
"When his handler is kidnapped, Enver sets out on a mission to save their future. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 20 Mar. 2022",
"One tells the story of Frank Pike, an ex-I.R.A. fighter recruited by the Nazis to fan anti-British sentiment in Ireland, through the fastidious diary of his besotted German handler , Adrian de Groot. \u2014 The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Golden State would like to add another ball- handler , and Dennis Schr\u00f6der and Reggie Jackson might be their best options. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Aug. 2021",
"And in the obedience competition, dogs will show off their ability to follow their handler 's commands. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"His handler was hopeful the dog would be able to return to duty. \u2014 Chelsea Prince, ajc , 17 June 2022",
"Peto performed many exceptional duties such as the recognition of drugs, apprehension of suspects, searches for contraband, and protection of his handler . \u2014 Shirley Macfarland, cleveland , 17 June 2022"
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"\u2014 Mark Starr",
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"\u2014 David Sirota"
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"He hung the painting on the wall.",
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"Noun",
"the hang of a skirt",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Visitors are welcome to play lawn games, hang by the fire pits or sit with a brew throughout the property's 12 acres. \u2014 Fox News , 7 July 2022",
"After a flurry of moves to open 2022 NBA free agency, Fourth of July Weekend was rather quiet as the Kevin Durant trade situation continues to hang over the entire league. \u2014 Jason Patt, Forbes , 6 July 2022",
"However, they must not be illuminated, create a traffic hazard, or hang over a sidewalk. \u2014 John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2022",
"This versatile drying rack gives you plenty of room to hang clothes, plus a mesh shelf for drying sweaters flat and space for two pairs of shoes. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 5 July 2022",
"Place bowls for keys and loose change on top of the dresser and hang an elegant mirror above it. \u2014 Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 July 2022",
"That's because phone vendors have to deliver those releases, while Google's own Pixel phones don\u2019t have that middleman hang -up. \u2014 Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"The Rein\u2019s were ready to hang over the reins, and Debella was happy to step in as owner. \u2014 Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant , 1 July 2022",
"That allows the Lightning to hang with it in our passing tests, where their 30-to-50-mph and 50-to-70-mph times are within 0.1 second of each other. \u2014 Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On the other hand, those who got the hang of teaching online often quit their school jobs and moved to startups indefinitely. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 27 June 2022",
"Each is also free from parabens and dyes, meaning those with sensitive skin can still enjoy the lovely smells without any hang -ups. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"Through her relationship with her two drag daughters, Metaworld has created a welcoming space where old hang -ups (about homophobia and transphobia) could be neutered when surrounded by a tightknit group. \u2014 Emily Monforte, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
"Throughout history, animals have often served as proxies for very human hang -ups. \u2014 Nicole Acheampong, The Atlantic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Pete Best, who had a front-row seat, agreed that Sutcliffe got the hang of his instrument. \u2014 The New Yorker , 27 Mar. 2022",
"This kind of historical hang -up doesn\u2019t fit neatly onto any one part of the American political spectrum\u2014or into any one part of history. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 6 May 2022",
"Veterans who return to the team for a second or third season start to get the hang of it. \u2014 David Wharton, Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"Above the fireplace hang slabs of bookmatched porcelain. \u2014 Hannah Selinger, WSJ , 4 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"An old diving school where divers would hang up their flippers for the night before heading out to sea in the morning, the building was left empty for years before Greg came upon it. \u2014 Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"But there\u2019s reason to believe the Flash can keep running, even if Miller has to hang up their shoes. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"There was no better place for Norah Flatley to hang up her crown. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Following her first restoration, Sydney isn't quite ready to hang up her protective goggles. \u2014 Seventeen , 14 Apr. 2022",
"A decade ago, Udoka could have kept plugging away as a player but instead took Popovich up on his offer to hang up his sneakers and become an assistant. \u2014 Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News , 7 May 2022",
"The Sheriff\u2019s Office said if anyone receives this call or a similar one to hang up and call 911. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Ensure guests have a spot to kick off their shoes, hang up coats, and set down packages or purses inside the door. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Higuain\u2019s father, Jorge, had told an Argentine television show on Monday that Gonzalo was set to hang up his cleats upon conclusion of the current Inter Miami campaign, but the 34-year-old forward stated that was not the case. \u2014 Franco Panizo, sun-sentinel.com , 5 Apr. 2022"
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"hired a handyman to paint the porch, clean the gutters, and replace the broken window",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Authorities said Chemirmir targeted elderly women mostly in their apartments at independent living communities by pretending to be a handyman or healthcare worker. \u2014 Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"But family members say Pettaway was a handyman who had been helping fix up the house and sometimes slept there. \u2014 Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al , 18 May 2022",
"Essig said Bonola was a handyman employed by Gaal and the two had been having an intimate affair for approximately two years. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 21 Apr. 2022",
"For the father who's a big handyman , get him an engraved hammer. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Oleh Yukhimchuk, a handyman , has been traveling across the city with a colleague in recent days, boarding up windows for residents who left hoping to find their possessions and homes intact upon their return. \u2014 Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"The first came in 1911, when an Italian handyman and former Louvre worker named Vincenzo Peruggia \u2014 who helped construct the Mona Lisa's protective frame \u2014 swiped the painting. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 6 June 2022",
"There is a uniquely gay shame in relying on the help of others, yet worrying that an unreturned call from a handyman is an act of homophobia. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"Farzad now needs another repair done, and his landlord urged him to try a different handyman . \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 21 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"During the investigation, a bloody handprint \u2014 missing two fingers \u2014 was found on a bedsheet beside Robirds Smith's body. \u2014 Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The day had been reserved for camera tests, with the crew sorting out such details as the exact shade of red that June\u2019s bloody handprint should leave on a car window. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The carbon handprint methodology was developed to holistically evaluate and communicate positive climate impacts of solutions tackling climate change, rather than solely measuring negative impacts. \u2014 Brooke Roberts-islam, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"If Dad loves throwing the ball around with the kids, grab one from the toy basket and ink a handprint on top. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Some of the best gifts for new moms are personalized ones, such as Keababies\u2019 handprint and footprint keepsake kit. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Kids for Peace already set a Guinness record in 2015 with creation of the largest collage of handprint cutouts (104,108 handprints). \u2014 Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Nov. 2021",
"During his final moments, Maya\u2019s father reaches to caress her face, leaving a bloody handprint on her cheek before dying in her presence. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Each of the leaves, shaped like a handprint , includes something a child at the center is thankful for: Pizza and avocado. \u2014 Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star , 29 Nov. 2021"
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"hired a handyman to paint the porch, clean the gutters, and replace the broken window",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Authorities said Chemirmir targeted elderly women mostly in their apartments at independent living communities by pretending to be a handyman or healthcare worker. \u2014 Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"But family members say Pettaway was a handyman who had been helping fix up the house and sometimes slept there. \u2014 Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al , 18 May 2022",
"Essig said Bonola was a handyman employed by Gaal and the two had been having an intimate affair for approximately two years. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 21 Apr. 2022",
"For the father who's a big handyman , get him an engraved hammer. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Oleh Yukhimchuk, a handyman , has been traveling across the city with a colleague in recent days, boarding up windows for residents who left hoping to find their possessions and homes intact upon their return. \u2014 Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"The first came in 1911, when an Italian handyman and former Louvre worker named Vincenzo Peruggia \u2014 who helped construct the Mona Lisa's protective frame \u2014 swiped the painting. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 6 June 2022",
"There is a uniquely gay shame in relying on the help of others, yet worrying that an unreturned call from a handyman is an act of homophobia. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"Farzad now needs another repair done, and his landlord urged him to try a different handyman . \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 21 May 2022"
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"\u2014 Joan O'C. Hamilton",
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"\u2014 Dean Meyer"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For a guy with a hyperextended knee, Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo played like someone who didn't even have a hangnail . \u2014 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 July 2021",
"For the one who can\u2019t be bothered with a nail salon: A manicure kit Everyone, everyone should have a manicure kit to turn to when a hangnail appears or a brow hair grows out of place. \u2014 Jessica Kasparian, USA TODAY , 22 Oct. 2019",
"Instead, at a minimum, any player with a hangnail or blister on his thumb is slapped with the questionable tag. \u2014 Bill Enright, SI.com , 4 Sep. 2019",
"But the truth is that the MCU has always had hangnails , and its world-building has never made much sense. \u2014 Noah Berlatsky, The Verge , 8 July 2019",
"Daily wear and tear lead to hangnails and snags, and polish and gel changes can weaken your tips over time. \u2014 Emily Rekstis, Glamour , 20 Apr. 2019",
"Rub cuticle oil wherever the skin meets the nail, then use a nail pusher to push back the skin around the nail to get rid of the dead skin that can morph into a hangnail . \u2014 Donna Bulseco, WSJ , 2 May 2018",
"Next to the headphone jack, the microUSB port is hidden beneath a push-to-open plastic slot that\u2019s just begging to get ripped off like a hangnail . \u2014 Christina Bonnington, WIRED , 29 Nov. 2011"
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"by folk etymology from agnail inflammation about the nail, from Middle English, corn on the foot or toe, from Old English angn\u00e6gl , from ang- (akin to enge tight, painful) + n\u00e6gl nail \u2014 more at anger":""
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"\u2014 David Sirota"
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"He hung the painting on the wall.",
"We hung paper lanterns from the trees.",
"My grandmother used to hang the wash on a clothesline.",
"A photograph of her family hangs on the wall.",
"Several of her paintings are hanging in the Museum of Modern Art.",
"Your coat is hanging in the closet.",
"They plan to hang wallpaper in the hallway.",
"He let his arm hang down into the water.",
"They will hang him in the county jailhouse.",
"He was hanged for his crimes.",
"Noun",
"the hang of a skirt",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Visitors are welcome to play lawn games, hang by the fire pits or sit with a brew throughout the property's 12 acres. \u2014 Fox News , 7 July 2022",
"After a flurry of moves to open 2022 NBA free agency, Fourth of July Weekend was rather quiet as the Kevin Durant trade situation continues to hang over the entire league. \u2014 Jason Patt, Forbes , 6 July 2022",
"However, they must not be illuminated, create a traffic hazard, or hang over a sidewalk. \u2014 John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2022",
"This versatile drying rack gives you plenty of room to hang clothes, plus a mesh shelf for drying sweaters flat and space for two pairs of shoes. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 5 July 2022",
"Place bowls for keys and loose change on top of the dresser and hang an elegant mirror above it. \u2014 Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 July 2022",
"That's because phone vendors have to deliver those releases, while Google's own Pixel phones don\u2019t have that middleman hang -up. \u2014 Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"The Rein\u2019s were ready to hang over the reins, and Debella was happy to step in as owner. \u2014 Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant , 1 July 2022",
"That allows the Lightning to hang with it in our passing tests, where their 30-to-50-mph and 50-to-70-mph times are within 0.1 second of each other. \u2014 Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On the other hand, those who got the hang of teaching online often quit their school jobs and moved to startups indefinitely. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 27 June 2022",
"Each is also free from parabens and dyes, meaning those with sensitive skin can still enjoy the lovely smells without any hang -ups. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"Through her relationship with her two drag daughters, Metaworld has created a welcoming space where old hang -ups (about homophobia and transphobia) could be neutered when surrounded by a tightknit group. \u2014 Emily Monforte, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
"Throughout history, animals have often served as proxies for very human hang -ups. \u2014 Nicole Acheampong, The Atlantic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Pete Best, who had a front-row seat, agreed that Sutcliffe got the hang of his instrument. \u2014 The New Yorker , 27 Mar. 2022",
"This kind of historical hang -up doesn\u2019t fit neatly onto any one part of the American political spectrum\u2014or into any one part of history. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 6 May 2022",
"Veterans who return to the team for a second or third season start to get the hang of it. \u2014 David Wharton, Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"Above the fireplace hang slabs of bookmatched porcelain. \u2014 Hannah Selinger, WSJ , 4 May 2022"
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"partly from Middle English hon , from Old English h\u014dn , transitive verb; partly from Middle English hangen , from Old English hangian , intransitive verb & transitive verb; both akin to Old High German h\u0101han , transitive verb, to hang, hang\u0113n , intransitive verb \u2014 more at cunctation":"Verb and Noun"
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"definitions":{
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"worked on repairing the fencing for five days hand running",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That strategy worked well throughout Harden's two-year partnership with Paul, as Coach Mike D'Antoni always had an experienced hand running the offense. \u2014 Ben Golliver, courant.com , 12 July 2019",
"In a territory where anxieties about China\u2019s hidden hand run deep, her words will change few minds. \u2014 The Economist , 14 June 2018",
"The first lady, who speaks French, also has experienced hands running the kitchen, pastry shop and florist\u2019s lair. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2018",
"The first lady, who speaks French, also has experienced hands running the kitchen, pastry shop and florist\u2019s lair. \u2014 Darlene Superville, BostonGlobe.com , 22 Apr. 2018",
"The first lady, who speaks French, also has experienced hands running the kitchen, pastry shop and florist\u2019s lair. \u2014 Darlene Superville, The Seattle Times , 21 Apr. 2018",
"That strategy worked well throughout Harden's two-year partnership with Paul, as Coach Mike D'Antoni always had an experienced hand running the offense. \u2014 Ben Golliver, courant.com , 12 July 2019",
"In a territory where anxieties about China\u2019s hidden hand run deep, her words will change few minds. \u2014 The Economist , 14 June 2018",
"The first lady, who speaks French, also has experienced hands running the kitchen, pastry shop and florist\u2019s lair. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2018"
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"circa 1807, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The start-up\u2019s mission is printing and distributing handbills for businesses on the Las Vegas Strip. \u2014 Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 Apr. 2020",
"The two began amassing their archive, not only recording interviews with prominent and not-so-prominent black artists and performers, but also accumulating play scripts, handbills , photographs and other materials. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 20 Mar. 2020",
"All over downtown Manhattan there were dizzying, heartbreaking handbills . \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 18 Mar. 2020",
"Unauthorized solicitation and materials such as handbills , flyers, stickers, beach balls, giveaways and samples. \u2014 Ed Masley, azcentral , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Milton also ran off handbills exposing alleged wrongdoings in the city, such as the San Antonio Country Club receiving unfair tax abatements or the electric company raising rates for no reason. \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com , 11 Oct. 2019",
"Bring your inventive ideas, handbills , and business cards. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 17 Nov. 2019",
"Wander through the decades-old photographs and ribbons, tickets and souvenirs, handbills and newspaper articles. \u2014 Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com , 20 Aug. 2019",
"In its early days, the Defender consisted of four-page, six-column handbills , filled with local news tidbits and clippings from other papers. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 9 July 2019"
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"definitions":{
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"It\u2019s the old lady in the ankle-length brown overcoat and cheap white sneakers who\u2019s carting apples on a hand truck . \u2014 Artem Chapeye, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Leave it to Master & Dynamic to make a speaker that sounds beautiful, looks fantastic, and has to be moved around your house with a hand truck . \u2014 Adrienne So, Wired , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Everything from altars to statues to paper goods to tea, all of our huge collections, carts and carts full of goods, just wheeling it with a hand truck . \u2014 Eva Hagberg, Curbed , 15 Mar. 2021",
"Late in the morning, a vegetable farmer from Patrick Springs appeared pushing a hand truck stacked with late-season tomatoes. \u2014 Shane Mitchell, Saveur , 21 Feb. 2018",
"Later, two officials with duty belts and handcuffs came out of the home to get wheeled hand trucks , taking them inside. \u2014 Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com , 24 Sep. 2019",
"McGregor threw a hand truck through a bus window and left two fighters injured \u2013 and subsequently off that week\u2019s event. \u2014 Mma Junkie Staff, MMA Junkie , 19 Oct. 2019",
"Chairs and tables scattered throughout are Frankenstein\u2019d; motorcycle wheels combine with mid-century tabletops, and hand trucks serve as the back to dinette chairs. \u2014 Steff Yotka, Vogue , 16 Oct. 2019",
"The man who flagged down the truck, later identified as Lev, retrieved a hand truck from his rented Toyota 4Runner and began to load one of the services into the vehicle when police moved in. \u2014 David Owens, courant.com , 10 July 2018"
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"The concert is the retreat center\u2019s biggest event of the year and features more than 80 vocalists, 20 instrumentalists, and adult, chamber, handbell , and children\u2019s choirs. \u2014 courant.com , 3 Dec. 2021",
"The free event will feature music ensembles, a handbell ensemble, and a chamber orchestra. \u2014 Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Also that day, the Lions Club plans a memorial ceremony at the USS Lexington Memorial, the Hancock Church presents a handbell concert, and The First Parish Church in Lexington offers a talk on the events of April 19, 1775, all virtual. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 Apr. 2021",
"The creation of the handbell choir at Avon Middle School happened due to a chance meeting. \u2014 Linda Gandee, cleveland , 23 Dec. 2020",
"The man who rings a handbell to signify the garbage truck is here, and you\u2019d better carry yours outside. \u2014 Brian Murphy, Washington Post , 7 May 2020",
"My kids have handbells and choir every Wednesday night. \u2014 Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal , 11 Mar. 2020",
"Ring those bells: Celebration Ringers, a community handbell choir from Strongsville, will perform a holiday show at the Ehrnfelt Senior Center from 7-8:30 p.m. Dec. 12. \u2014 Shirley Macfarland, cleveland , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Celebration Ringers now boasts five octaves of handbells and seven octaves of hand chimes. \u2014 cleveland , 27 Nov. 2019"
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"wanted to take the trip, but was handcuffed by her responsibility to watch her ailing father",
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"After her arrest, Bare was able to slip out of her left handcuff , exit the police vehicle and flee. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"Burkins felt the clasp of a handcuff around his right wrist. \u2014 Dallas News , 16 Sep. 2021",
"The 45-second clip shows police handcuff Piccini facedown on the street, then lift her up and throw her into the back of the van. \u2014 Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 July 2021",
"Several officers entered the cell to handcuff and subdue Gilbert. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2021",
"A few minutes later, an officer removed the handcuff and began collecting Jackson's property. \u2014 Andrew Welsh-huggins And Farnoush Amiri, Star Tribune , 15 Apr. 2021",
"Another officer is seen in the footage removing Jackson's handcuff . \u2014 NBC News , 15 Apr. 2021",
"The Mahanoy School District, which declined ABC News' request for an interview, says in court documents that the appellate decision threatens to handcuff coaches, principals and teachers nationwide. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 2 Apr. 2021",
"Videos showed police, clad in riot gear, using battering rams to enter properties and handcuff and drag out the occupants as crowds spilled into the streets. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Dec. 2020",
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"The suspect, with his hands raised, backed up until police could handcuff him. \u2014 Julian Mark, Anchorage Daily News , 18 June 2021",
"The suspect, with his hands raised, backed up until police could handcuff him. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
"McCormack grabbed the dog in a headlock, but Drago broke free and held onto the suspect until troopers could handcuff him, police said. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 21 Dec. 2020",
"The officer contacted Ervin about a traffic violation while on patrol and attempted to handcuff him. \u2014 Audrey Conklin, Fox News , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Wright then pulled away as an officer attempted to handcuff him and got back into the driver's seat of the car. \u2014 Grace Hauck, USA TODAY , 3 Dec. 2021",
"The officers then handcuff him and take a handgun from his waist band. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Standard practice is to position someone for arrest first, then handcuff them, then search them for weapons, experts said. \u2014 Peter Nickeas, CNN , 30 Nov. 2021",
"Emerich reached down in an apparent attempt to handcuff Smith, who rolled on his stomach, the footage shows. \u2014 Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal , 1 Apr. 2022"
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"These gloves will keep your hands warm.",
"She put her hands over her eyes.",
"He sat quietly with his hands folded in his lap.",
"Do you need a hand ?",
"Verb",
"was happy to hand her grandmother's cookie recipes to the parish ladies to put in their cookbook",
"the clerk handed her the receipt",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Their approach: wait by the hospital doors of the hospital at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for the shift change, free coffee and hot chocolate in hand . \u2014 Phil Wahba, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"With an eye cream or a serum in hand , opt for these reusable Dieux eye masks, designed to increase the efficacy of your favorite eye cream or serum. \u2014 Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022",
"With a list of these projects and technologies in hand , start exploring a path to create programs that build both momentum and efficiency. \u2014 David Nugent, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Charles\u2019s apartment, prompting Mabel and Oliver to scurry into the bedroom with the painting in hand . \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 28 June 2022",
"Farmers grew up with shovel in hand ready to cut drainage ditches. \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Fans attending the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic will have numerous options for watching Will Zalatoris, Tony Finau and others with a cold drink in hand . \u2014 Mason Young, Detroit Free Press , 27 June 2022",
"Cooler temperatures, a slight breeze, and maybe a refreshing cocktail in hand ? \u2014 Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens , 27 June 2022",
"With a device in hand , police can just look through the browser and text messages directly. \u2014 Heather Kelly, Tatum Hunter, Danielle Abril, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley then took to the stage to hand a formal proclamation recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"If additional research bears out the findings, the gum could join face masks and hand sanitizer in the arsenal for curbing the virus\u2019s spread. \u2014 Abdullah Iqbal, Scientific American , 24 Feb. 2022",
"However, Guinness World Records is not ready to hand the title over quite yet. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"Johnson spokeswoman Alexa Henning downplayed the texts after they were publicly revealed for the first time during the committee\u2019s hearing in Washington, but did not deny that Johnson had wanted to hand -deliver the slate of fake electors to Pence. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"How the president and his briefcase-toting brigands sought to pressure the Justice Department and election officials around the country to ignore those results and hand the president the second term that voters refused him. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"Cadillac plans to hand -build just 500 examples of the sedan at its parent company General Motors\u2019 Global Technical Center in southeast Michigan starting next year. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 28 June 2022",
"Most savvy people would not hand money to a financial advisor that acted merely as a transactional clearing house. \u2014 Regina Hoshimi, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Former President Donald Trump's campaign, the House Jan. 6 committee has detailed, wanted Pence to use the fake Trump electors to halt or at least delay certifying President Biden's electoral victory and eventually hand the election to Trump. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"And putting money in people\u2019s pockets goes hand -in-hand with social distancing policies, by defraying some of the costs of closing non-essential businesses, which in turn threatens the reliable paychecks of thousands of workers. \u2014 Ben Adler, The New Republic , 13 Apr. 2020",
"The two phenomena go hand -in-hand: The Arctic Oscillation is positive because the polar vortex is strong. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 19 Feb. 2020",
"The developments come a day after the managers hand -delivered the articles of impeachment, adopted by the House in December, to the Senate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signed them in a historic engrossment ceremony. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Jan. 2020",
"One shop sold stuffed toys made to look hand -woven, as if a wry old local was out back sewing Ewok dolls. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Sep. 2019",
"His vision is carried on by three generations of his family who hand -pick grapes to make homemade wine. \u2014 Verna Gates, al , 19 Sep. 2019",
"Food that\u2019s healthy for people and healthy for the environment go hand -in-hand. \u2014 Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Oct. 2019",
"For the next election, all of L.A. County will be ditching the previous system where voters hand -marked ballots for a system where computers will aid in the marking process. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press , 3 Oct. 2019",
"Half the fun is perusing the lengthy cocktail list, designed to look hand -scrawled and presented in a small binder. \u2014 Paul Hodgins, Daily Pilot , 25 Sep. 2019"
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"Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German hant hand":"Noun, Verb, and Adverb"
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": a complex silicate that contains lead, calcium, strontium, and other metals and is isomorphous with epidote":[]
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"hand-to-hand fighting"
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"\u02c8han-d\u0259-",
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"\u02c8han(d)-t\u0259-\u02c8hand"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"There, building projects don\u2019t just transfer from hand to hand . \u2014 Serenity Gibbons, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Being a coastal grandmother means wearing loose, breathable fabrics and doing strength training by shifting a full glass of Sauvignon Blanc from hand to hand . \u2014 Glamour , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Pick the dough up and pass it gently from hand to hand . \u2014 Carlo Mirarchi, Robb Report , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The most magical thing is the way the books were passed from hand to hand amongst kids, and adults sort of didn\u2019t know anything about it. \u2014 Staff And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Passglas, which means \u2018the glass that passes from hand to hand \u2019 was an after-dinner game where the drinker\u2019s task was to slurp precisely the right amount, right up to the marked circle. \u2014 Marisel Salazar, Robb Report , 27 Oct. 2021",
"In poker, each player has to act in the now and change plans and strategies from hand to hand , competition to competition and day to day. \u2014 Johan Hajji, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Coming up for us, hand to hand combat at 35,000 feet. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Aug. 2021",
"Sadly, after having gone from hand to hand and being protected that entire time, at this last moment the secret was revealed. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 16 June 2021"
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": a usually unpowered saw designed to be used with one hand":[]
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"\u02c8han(d)-\u02ccs\u022f"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If propagating plants already in your yard, such as birds of paradise, use a small handsaw or sharp knife to cut at the base of the plant. \u2014 Jasmin Perez, Sunset Magazine , 5 May 2020",
"Expecting to work as a bartender, Mr. Jacomo ended up building some of the restaurant\u2019s booths with plywood and a handsaw . \u2014 Harrison Smith, Washington Post , 8 Mar. 2020",
"Use a handsaw or jigsaw to cut through the last bit of wood to free the waste piece. \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 11 Jan. 2020",
"All the crew really needed was a handsaw in order to safely emerge in the bathroom of a neighboring jewelry store within minutes. \u2014 Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic , 17 Dec. 2019",
"His father gave him an old handsaw , which was likely the genesis of his woodworking hobby in later years. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 13 Nov. 2019",
"Most tools\u2014 handsaw , chisel, drill, etc\u2014can live under the kitchen sink alongside a toolbox full of screwdrivers. \u2014 Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics , 10 Mar. 2017",
"Though Annie cut the pipes herself using a miter saw, a handsaw will also work. \u2014 Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living , 5 Oct. 2018",
"Use a utility knife or handsaw to cut out window-size slabs of drywall. \u2014 Popular Mechanics , 5 Mar. 2018"
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"\u2014 Gail Marks Jarvis",
"The woman and I cobbled together a lingua franca through hand-waving and the bits of Mandarin and Cantonese we both could understand.",
"\u2014 Madelyne Xiao"
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"In many respects, his essay is the quintessence of the form, a frustrating exercise in bland soul-searching, misdirection, and hand-waving .",
"\u2014 Laura Miller",
"If this explanation seems a bit like hand waving , it is. Many of the details have not been worked out.",
"\u2014 Don Lincoln",
"\u2026 we never, ever take concrete steps to solve our problems, no matter how much handwaving we do.",
"\u2014 Matthew Dessem",
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"so called from the finely serrated edge of the dorsal ray":""
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"\u2014 Andrew Weil , Self Healing , December 2004"
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": a method for determining the iodine number of an oil or fat that consists in adding a mixture of iodine and bromine in glacial acetic acid and estimating the excess of unused halogen by titration with sodium thiosulfate":[]
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": a person admitted to the merchant guild in Oxford, England":[]
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"Middle English, from Middle French hanap, henap , of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hn\u00e6pp bowl, drinking vessel, Old Saxon hnapp , Middle Dutch & Middle Low German nap , Old High German hnapf , Old Norse hnappr":""
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": a blow with the hand":[],
": a bell ringer's pull on the rope that swings a church bell to its mouth-up position : the sounding stroke \u2014 compare backstroke sense 2":[]
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": a small pile of hay : haycock":[]
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": an act of supporting the body on the hands with the trunk and legs balanced in the air":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After that, Cook gets to work trying to perfect his handstand game, following the coaching advice to kick up slow and push away from the ground. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"Just outside, an enormous sculpture of a Louis Vuitton model in a handstand position greets guests with a bang. \u2014 Cassandra Pintro, Vogue , 21 May 2022",
"The late, great Chi Chi DeVayne is an immediate standout \u2014 her handstand -twerk continues to impress us to this day \u2014 while Thorgy Thor\u2019s unbridled energy is infectious. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Isa, whose bar routines have hovered around the 9.875 range, had only a slight wobble on a handstand that prevented her from getting a 10.0 as well. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 Mar. 2022",
"The girls grin and Narozhna does a quick handstand . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Enter the frog stand, then raise your legs overhead into a handstand . \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 10 Mar. 2021",
"As a bonus, Lee tossed in a graceful handstand at the start of the routine. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 17 Nov. 2021",
"As a bonus, Lee tossed in a graceful handstand at the start of the routine. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 17 Nov. 2021"
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": a bar used as a lever":[]
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": an acrobatic feat in which the body turns forward or backward in a full circle from a standing position and lands first on the hands and then on the feet":[]
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"He did a handspring on the lawn.",
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"Robinson then celebrated with a somersault and a back handspring . \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Biles first landed the vault \u2013 which requires a roundoff onto the takeoff board, a back handspring onto the table and a double somersault with her body in a piked position \u2013 at U.S. Classic in May and did two in podium training here. \u2014 Rachel Axon, USA TODAY , 28 July 2021",
"The move involves a back handspring with two-and-a-half twists in the air before landing. \u2014 Joshua Berlinger, Aditi Sangal And Adam Renton, CNN , 28 July 2021",
"Her second vault was an Amanar, which is a back handspring onto the vault into a back layout with two and a half twists. \u2014 New York Times , 26 July 2021",
"The vault \u2013 during which Biles does a roundoff onto the takeoff board, a back handspring onto the vault and flips twice with her body in a piked position \u2013 is so difficult that most men don\u2019t try it. \u2014 Rachel Axon, USA TODAY , 25 July 2021",
"Debuted by Biles at the GK U.S. Classic preceding nationals last month, the move involves two straight-legged backflips in the air launched by a roundoff back handspring , requiring perilous amounts of momentum, speed, and strength. \u2014 Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR , 7 June 2021",
"Biles made history at the U.S. Classic in Indianapolis simply by trying the maneuver, which involves a roundoff onto the springboard, a handspring onto the vault and a double backflip in a pike position before the landing. \u2014 Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2021",
"Biles sprinted down the runway, did a roundoff onto the springboard followed by a back handspring onto the vault, finishing with two backflips with her legs ramrod straight and her hands seemingly magnetized to her hamstrings. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 23 May 2021"
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"definitions":{
": a fragment of rock trimmed and shaped to dimensions of about 4\u00d73\u00d71 inches":[],
": a fragment of rock with at least one freshly broken surface and small enough to be easily handled for megascopic study":[]
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"definitions":{
": either of two bars used to carry a coffin at a funeral":[]
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