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On Friday, Elon Musk’s space-technology company launched its megarocket for the 13th time, after a handful of delays had pushed the mission back by about a week.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Earlier this year, a handful of West Virginia legislators pushed to add some “bumpers” to the program to safeguard public funds.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Fox, 68, co-founded a software company, Irving Technology, that is powering a newly launched law firm, called Irving, which employs only a handful of lawyers and primarily relies on artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
This hidden genetic diversity may help explain how a population founded by only a handful of snakes survived intense inbreeding, adapted to Guam, and expanded so dramatically.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
We have to go with Clare to a dark place—a very dark place indeed—a place where few foxes and only a handful of elk and absolutely no badgers have ever gone before.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"We call it rotting out," says Fererro, now wearing a white laboratory coat as he adds handfuls of seagrass to the Calshot tank.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mourners on this occasion are invited to cast Lizzie’s stones into the ocean, and handfuls of her ashes go in, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
After a litany of stressful events, I couldn’t handle more handfuls of hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
On the menu today is spaghetti served with canned vegetables and tomato sauce and flavoured with generous handfuls of spices.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
He dances into the room, clicking two handfuls of spoons and forks together like they’re instruments.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
