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Example Sentences

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Deploying FDEs only makes financial and strategic sense for a handful of companies, McCardel, who left Palantir in 2018, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

With just a handful of words, Emma has altered everyone’s perception of her, including her fiancé’s.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Up 8%, down 5%, down 4%, up 6%—these are just a handful of the single-day herk-a-jerks since the beginning of February for shares of America’s largest company, Nvidia.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Appearing in Thologolong and its surrounds recently, however, were a handful of road signs graffitied with Freeman's name – something Janice Newnham told the BBC she'd thought was "somebody's April Fool's Day joke".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

I thought about bread, or a handful of oats.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff