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- on the one hand, you would have more storage space in a larger house, but on the other, you would have more rooms to heat
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- tall buildings rose on either hand
- nothing but wide open space on either hand
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- the restaurant always hires several more hands for the busy summer season
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- writes with a flowing, old-fashioned hand
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- the final decision is in your hands
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- I'd like to get my hands on that vintage Cadillac convertible
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- the downstairs tenant gave us a hand getting the heavy dresser up the stairs
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- once she got her own place, the young woman showed that she was quite a hand at interior decoration
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- ace,
- adept,
- artist,
- authority,
- cognoscente,
- connoisseur,
- crackerjack
- (also crackajack),
- dab
- [chiefly British],
- dab hand
- [chiefly British],
- expert,
- fiend,
- geek,
- guru,
- hotshot,
- maestro,
- master,
- maven
- (also mavin),
- meister,
- past master,
- proficient,
- scholar,
- shark,
- sharp,
- virtuoso,
- whiz,
- wizard
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- addict,
- aficionado
- (also afficionado),
- buff,
- devotee,
- enthusiast,
- fan
- all-rounder
- [British],
- jack-of-all-trades,
- Renaissance man
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- the subpoena required a lawyer's hand
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of hand (Entry 2 of 2)
- was happy to hand her grandmother's cookie recipes to the parish ladies to put in their cookbook
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- the clerk handed her the receipt
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- handed me her bundles while she fished for her house keys
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“Hand.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand. Accessed 8 December 2019.
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