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handsomely

[han-suhm-lee] / ˈhæn səm li /


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That bet has paid off handsomely so far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

If you incur that risk and the market does well, you most likely will be handsomely rewarded for incurring that risk.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Villa won but could have drawn - or equally triumphed more handsomely - during a game which went from comfortable to edgy to relief.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

That strategy has paid off spectacularly -- coding is the rare AI skill that users are willing to pay handsomely for.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

One and a half blocks from the market was the handsomely refurbished mansion of Robert Morris, a wealthy manufacturer who had used his fortune to help finance the Revolutionary War.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy


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