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Amino acids have handedness, meaning they can be created in two mirror-image versions, like a pair of hands.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
The centrist voters who put Biden in the White House saw him as a safe and consoling pair of hands.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2025
In the aftermath, day laborers were quick to help clean up Pasadena’s streets while volunteers flocked to evacuation sites, offering an extra pair of hands.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
In a video obtained by Fox News Digital, a pair of hands can be seen reaching out from the trapdoor to brace Martin's fall and prevent any injuries.
—Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
For three decades, one of those pair of hands has belonged to 65-year-old Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros band member Perry Farrell via the Lollapalooza Festival.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 14 June 2024
Newcomer Ladd McConkey is another pair of hands that need to produce.
—Jay Paris, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
So they’ve been assigned, like a pair of hands on the crew of a ship at sea, to take inventory of the station’s food supplies.
—Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
In the black-and-white photo posted on social media at the time, Eloise's feet can be seen being cradled by a pair of hands, as the then-newborn baby wore a onesie.
—Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
The centrist voters who put Biden in the White House saw him as a safe and consoling pair of hands.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2025
In the aftermath, day laborers were quick to help clean up Pasadena’s streets while volunteers flocked to evacuation sites, offering an extra pair of hands.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
In a video obtained by Fox News Digital, a pair of hands can be seen reaching out from the trapdoor to brace Martin's fall and prevent any injuries.
—Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
For three decades, one of those pair of hands has belonged to 65-year-old Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros band member Perry Farrell via the Lollapalooza Festival.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 14 June 2024
Newcomer Ladd McConkey is another pair of hands that need to produce.
—Jay Paris, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
So they’ve been assigned, like a pair of hands on the crew of a ship at sea, to take inventory of the station’s food supplies.
—Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
In the black-and-white photo posted on social media at the time, Eloise's feet can be seen being cradled by a pair of hands, as the then-newborn baby wore a onesie.
—Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024
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“Pair of hands.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pair%20of%20hands. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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