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hand-carry

[hand-kar-ee] / ˈhændˈkær i /






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Israeli and U.N. officials hand-carry cash over the border to Gaza.

From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2023

There is now no place in the country to read Paps, and biopsies are given to someone flying to Ethiopia to hand-carry to a hospital there.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2019

When I was based in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, in the nineteen-eighties, she found people to hand-carry mail into a country that frequently lacked a functioning postal system.

From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2019

Even after international financial sanctions were imposed on North Korea, Ro said, he would hand-carry $1 million a month on flights back to Pyongyang.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018

When he found out that these people had already contacted us and had prepared a report for us, he offered to hand-carry it to Wright-Patterson.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

Gates said trail builders hand-carried 128 tons of construction materials and tools to the site to ensure there was no additional damage during the construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2022

Griggs collected no fees when he hand-carried the tapes to a producer in Beverly Hills, who in turn shared them with Impulse!

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2021

She wanted simple elegance, from her planned chignon hairstyle and simple jewelry to the shoes she hand-carried from the Upper West Side.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 16, 2019

One teenager from Norway brought a small hand-carried, battery-powered electric fan and sprayed himself with water, while others sought the shade of trees lining the Reflecting Pool.

From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2019

Hand pumping into hand-carried buckets is impractical and extremely tedious.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon

Billy, hand-carrying finished suits, had been on his way to Heathrow Airport and thence to overseas clients when he was attacked on the train.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Each person had a specific task, from hand-carrying the ignition devices into the EU, to supplying cars.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

I photographed him hand-carrying this precious cargo back to his country.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2014

“But the world of cold wars is one of blockades on the high seas, airlifts into West Berlin, secret intermediaries hand-carrying letters from the White House to the Kremlin.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 30, 2014

Casaroli was hand-carrying the Pope's first personal letter to the party leader, a three-page missive written in Russian that referred to the human rights claims of Catholics and other minorities.

From Time Magazine Archive




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