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The off-white exterior and synthetic handrails require less cleaning, for example.
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 May 2026
Keeping people in their homes often means modifying entrances to minimize steps, installing handrails, or relocating a bedroom and shower to the main floor.
—Allison Aubrey, NPR, 4 May 2026
In recent months, swastikas and racial slurs were spray-painted outside an office in Boca Raton, and antisemitic language was etched into handrails at a local park.
—Laurence Milstein, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
By the ‘80s, the garden was gone, replaced by a pavilion by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer — a postmodern Mesopotamian gate with glass blocks and undulating turquoise handrails.
—Bloomberg, 24 Apr. 2026
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 May 2026
Keeping people in their homes often means modifying entrances to minimize steps, installing handrails, or relocating a bedroom and shower to the main floor.
—Allison Aubrey, NPR, 4 May 2026
In recent months, swastikas and racial slurs were spray-painted outside an office in Boca Raton, and antisemitic language was etched into handrails at a local park.
—Laurence Milstein, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
By the ‘80s, the garden was gone, replaced by a pavilion by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer — a postmodern Mesopotamian gate with glass blocks and undulating turquoise handrails.
—Bloomberg, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Handrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/handrail. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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handrail
noun
hand·rail
ˈhan-ˌdrāl 
: a narrow rail for grasping as a support (as on a staircase)
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