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Leave a comment View Comments During her residency, Ernst created a new design for the library’s display window, a gold and blush Phoenix gown with feathers that rise and fall, activated by passersby who place their hands up to a panel on the window.
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
Chula Vista police ordered him to put his hands up.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
The Kansas City Chiefs have had their hand up for Christmas Day games, and they’re being called upon once again.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2025
When cops showed up outside Amy Hadley's home in South Bend, Indiana, in 2022, her teenage son emerged with his hands up as some officers began to openly question whether the suspect lived there.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
Chula Vista police ordered him to put his hands up.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
The Kansas City Chiefs have had their hand up for Christmas Day games, and they’re being called upon once again.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2025
When cops showed up outside Amy Hadley's home in South Bend, Indiana, in 2022, her teenage son emerged with his hands up as some officers began to openly question whether the suspect lived there.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Hand up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hand%20up. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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