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Recent Examples of hand-to-hand
Early warfare focused on hand-to-hand combat, but in time, the types of weapons advanced to include items like slings, crossbows and swords and with them came the practice of sending messages with their use.
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Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
The challenges were often physical — a high point was watching brothers Aras Baskauskas and Vytas Baskauskas square off in hand-to-hand combat.
—Steve Helling, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
The weed making its way from hand-to-hand is potent.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 28 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
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Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
The challenges were often physical — a high point was watching brothers Aras Baskauskas and Vytas Baskauskas square off in hand-to-hand combat.
—Steve Helling, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
The weed making its way from hand-to-hand is potent.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 28 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
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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
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Is basketball good for your physical health?—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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In this case, the donation is a physical piece of equipment, and the money can’t be diverted to something else, Obayashi said.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2025
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Ice and heat therapy are safe, effective, convenient, and cost-efficient ways to help relieve back pain.—
RikkiLynn Shields Hannigan,
Health,
25 Oct. 2025
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Go from coffee runs to movie night in this long-sleeve top and matching drawstring joggers, which are equipped with convenient pockets.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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In a video shared to his Instagram that's now gone viral, the somatic healer can be seen standing behind a child, who has her arms crossed.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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While Milana’s work is rooted in Italian craftsmanship and designed in dialogue with the body, Campagna brought her background in somatic therapy, movement and curation.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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This handy kit comes with more than 30 travel-sized pouches of meds for any ailment, including Pepto-Bismol, ibuprofen, allergy relievers, decongestants, and more.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 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,
31 Oct. 2025
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At its première, at the Avignon Festival, in 2023, this two-and-a-half-hour exercise in corporeal commitment was greeted as both a scandal and a career-making success.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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Also at play is the culture of sport itself, an arena of ultimate corporeal sacrifice — and a multi-billion-dollar enterprise.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Not quite plant, not quite animal; delicious and wild and rare.—
Callie Sumlin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
15 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, dogs were more likely to respond to animal stimuli than to non-animal stimuli.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 July 2025
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Giuffre describes the school environment as rough, cruel, and controlling, a corporal place that led her to run away several times.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 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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“Hand-to-hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand-to-hand. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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