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hand-me-downs

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plural of hand-me-down

as in white elephants

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Alcaraz sensed the dip and sent him running east and west along the baseline, breaking him for the first time since late in the first set by outlasting him on one of those corner-to-corner scraps.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Historically, retail investors got IPO scraps as companies focused on getting shares into the hands of patient institutions, but that’s changing.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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