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handful

adjective as in a small quantity

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Technology keeps remaking the way Americans invest, from the introduction of the electric telegraph in 1844 to the advent of artificial intelligence in just the past handful of years.

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Prediction markets face a handful of legal challenges from state litigators, but Spruce Point reported that these challenges are likely to go to the U.S.

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Of those efforts, only a handful have been successful.

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Doctors in a handful of states with so-called shield laws have prescribed the medication to women in states with abortion bans.

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“Just as big tech—and especially artificial intelligence—faces scrutiny over their water use, a handful of highly dependent agri-food companies hold outsized influence in building water resilience,” said Henry Throp, research manager at FAIRR.

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