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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand on
hand down
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South Korea has maintained a de facto moratorium on executions since 1997 and courts rarely hand down death sentences.—
Hyung-Jin Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026 -
Every family may hand down its share of struggles and traumas, but Dabis’s movie suggests that Palestinians living under the yoke of occupation must deal with an especially cruel and binding inheritance.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Hand on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand%20on. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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