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handshake

[hand-sheyk] / ˈhændˌʃeɪk /








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Close friends dining across the room from each other might exchange a wave or a quick handshake, but unsolicited business pitches go against the restaurant’s unwritten code of conduct, members say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Fury said with a grin, and the pair closed it out with a handshake.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

What came out of the meeting was a path to return—and a handshake that could cost Koepka up to $90 million in a combination of charitable donations, bonuses and equity in the Tour.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

“The deal was never etched in paper and signed by any party — it was a handshake agreement in principle,” Erin Ivie, a spokesperson for Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, told CalMatters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

She gives each of us a gloved handshake.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston