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Becker said he’s focused on evidence of price gouging in California specifically, where a small handful of refineries serve a relatively isolated market with limited alternatives for sourcing fuel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
A handful of mushrooms that seems meager in a paper bag can become the center of a frittata.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Apollo attributes that weakness to rich offering valuations, higher interest rates and a public market increasingly dominated by a handful of profitable megacapitalization companies.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
In another Nest video, the man raises a handful of brush to block the camera lens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
He collected a handful of pebbles, gave half to Abby and yelled, “Sink the ships! Sink the ships!”
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Workers bend the branches down with a hook-shaped tool made of PVC pipe, helping people reach handfuls of cherries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Most grabbed small handfuls of items, such as prepared foods to go and drinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Cooks add canned tomatoes and peppers with handfuls of spices, stirring the sauce with giant spoons.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
On the menu today is spaghetti served with canned vegetables and tomato sauce and flavoured with generous handfuls of spices.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Zheegwon tossed down a few handfuls like confetti.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
