handed down
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He looked visibly shocked when the judge handed down the sentence in a court in the capital, Accra, on Monday.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
In an opinion handed down Wednesday, the justice once again refused to import SCOTUS’s “results-driven approach to due process” into state law.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Maddy Inez describes the sketchbook regimen handed down from her grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The football chief said he always read the decisions handed down and "sometimes I am surprised by them. Sometimes I agree with them, and sometimes I disagree."
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Immediately, the description of the puffin nation’s most notorious enemy, as handed down from one puffin generation to the next, flooded Major Puff’s memory.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
They are among the home cooks whipping up feasts from handed-down recipes and sharing those dishes with others.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022
"When I came to Maine, a colleague who was a native Mainer gave me her handed-down family recipes for how to collect, clean, and prepare Irish moss, as well as a pudding recipe."
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
Brown says she is the keeper of handed-down family photos; she doesn’t know every person pictured here, but they’re all connected to her in some way, collected through time.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022
Everything she has was gifted, handed-down, or purchased second-hand.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2020
I knew how people thought about things, how people were, but it was a blow to see James playing into that handed-down way of looking at the world.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
