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hand

noun as in appendage at end of human arm

noun as in person who does labor

noun as in handwriting

noun as in round of applause

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Bietz also denied accusations that he was carrying a knife on the beach, saying that the object photographed in his hand was likely either a stick, his phone or the lanyard attached to his keys.

With the federal government now officially shut down, the House of Representatives has a lot of time on its hands.

From Salon

Another stumbling block for some in Hamas is that the plan requires them to hand over all of the hostages over the first 72 hours of the ceasefire - giving away their only bargaining chip.

From BBC

I’ve never felt my femininity to be particularly close at hand, and certainly on “Pure Heroine,” I don’t think there’s any gender attached to that narrator.

The vendor handed him a postcard-sized “script” of how to respond, he said.

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

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