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handful

adjective as in a small quantity

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What the market has been doing in a vacuum of economic data releases, an intensifying trade war, and stock index gains tied to a handful of shares should have surprised no one.

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The motion passed by just a handful of votes.

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The NFL record for the longest field goal stood at 63 yards for 43 years — set first by Tom Dempsey, then tied by a handful of others — before Matt Prater made a 64-yarder in 2013.

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Our count found a handful of citizens have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors.

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The market is less overvalued than at the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000, but more concentrated in a handful of companies.

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

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