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Recent Examples of hand-to-hand
The one extended hand-to-hand fight sequence, a showdown between a slight hacker and her much larger foe, is tense and engaging.
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Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
Playing the main villain who causes the mayhem in the Daniel Dae Kim-starring series suits the actor just fine for now — in hopes that a season two could see her character, Juno, really letting hand-to-hand combat and bullets fly following that cliffhanger season one finale.
—Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Local higher-ed institutions are engaging in hand-to-hand combat to keep out fraudsters who are weaponizing AI to swarm their systems.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
Combat is a big focus, with a host of available weapons – ranging from a simple sword to a machine gun-like magical parasol – and a wide variety of hand-to-hand mystical martial arts.
—Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
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Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
Playing the main villain who causes the mayhem in the Daniel Dae Kim-starring series suits the actor just fine for now — in hopes that a season two could see her character, Juno, really letting hand-to-hand combat and bullets fly following that cliffhanger season one finale.
—Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Local higher-ed institutions are engaging in hand-to-hand combat to keep out fraudsters who are weaponizing AI to swarm their systems.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
Combat is a big focus, with a host of available weapons – ranging from a simple sword to a machine gun-like magical parasol – and a wide variety of hand-to-hand mystical martial arts.
—Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-to-hand
Adjective
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Participants and bystanders can read close-in aerial maneuvers and radar warnings in various ways.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Oct. 2025
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At a handful of locations, these spikes extended out to nearly a meter, looking more like lances than anything needed to ward off a close-in attack.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Ethernet uses a physical cable that connects your computer directly to the router.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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Despite its name, the condition, which has yet to be formally recognized, is often also paired with emotional, cognitive and physical dysfunction.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Deposit $10 or more in cash using any of the secure and convenient payment methods.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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That’s true, although the Eagles seem to choose convenient times to bring up last season.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Both are very valuable, but my mind often overrides intuition or the nature of what my body knows, its somatic intelligence.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
4 Sep. 2025
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Experiment with one small goal for this time to bolster mental and somatic wellbeing.—
Colin Bedell,
Them.,
26 Aug. 2025
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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2025
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That’s where magnesium body sprays are supposed to come in handy.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Ashley Darby, after seven winters, six summers, and two presidential administrations, has finally gotten divorced from the corporeal gremlin known as Michael Darby.—
Shamira Ibrahim,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Voldemort only appears in Rowling's novel as a grotesque face growing out of another character's head in that first book, and doesn't receive a full-bodied corporeal form until the climax of the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In 2022, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 paved the way for alternatives to animal testing, and in December 2023, an NIH advisory committee made similar recommendations to develop non-animal methods.—
Rachel Fobar,
Vox,
14 May 2025
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Rendering is a process that transforms animal by-products, like leftover meat and fats...and yes, chicken feet, into usable materials, such as animal feed, fuel, and other industrial products.—
Phil Kafarakis,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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In addition to murder, prosecutors said a jury also found Lopez guilty of assault on a child under 8 causing death and four counts of corporal injury to a child.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Shagan and his corporal Saskia (Sophie Robertson) have broken into the safe house and are holding her family hostage.—
Nicole Briese,
People.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Hand-to-hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand-to-hand. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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