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handful

[hand-fool] / ˈhænd fʊl /


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He started with roughly $2,000 spread across a handful of low-cost ETFs, and has scaled up from there.

From The Wall Street Journal

The backstop mechanism, which provides funding at times of extreme financial stress, is currently only available to a handful of central banks.

From Barron's

A handful of companies in AI-connected fields, such as semiconductors and data-center equipment, now sport market capitalizations in the tens of billions of dollars despite having relatively modest profits or none at all.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s why, Kritzman and Turkington find, investing in only a handful of the biggest companies has “essentially the same” riskiness as owning all the rest of the stocks in the S&P 500 combined.

From The Wall Street Journal

The person raised a gloved hand to block the lens before grabbing what appeared to be a handful of brush to further block the camera.

From The Wall Street Journal