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in hand

ADJECTIVE
owned
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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I recently finished an ice cream in Copenhagen and found myself stumped at the trash bins, wrapper in hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Hunched over a desk in the Mountain State Spotlight newsroom in Charleston, West Virginia, pen in hand, we scrawled out official notice of our new school in a spiral-bound notebook.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

“The long legacy and history of visual arts with music, they are hand in hand because in some ways they elevate each other,” Lawrence says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

"I'm a huge advocate of using digital education as something that goes hand in hand with practical training from a professional trainer," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I sit in the chair, take Grace in hand, and play.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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