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Recent Examples of hand-to-hand
Inside a nearby training center that will soon be doubled by 40,000 square feet, recruits learn hand-to-hand combat and can access state-of-the-art gym equipment across multiple large rooms.
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Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2025
Waterbury Police Department officers reportedly observed Santos and others conducting hand-to-hand drug transactions from a car Santos was driving on March 21, 2021, according to court records.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 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
Recalling the unbelievable fight sequences that littered Gareth Evans’ popular Indonesian film The Raid, this work of wonder is stuffed to the brim with Tjahjanto’s signature style: kinetic camerawork and brutal hand-to-hand choreography, relentlessly conveyed through extended set pieces.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
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Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2025
Waterbury Police Department officers reportedly observed Santos and others conducting hand-to-hand drug transactions from a car Santos was driving on March 21, 2021, according to court records.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 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
Recalling the unbelievable fight sequences that littered Gareth Evans’ popular Indonesian film The Raid, this work of wonder is stuffed to the brim with Tjahjanto’s signature style: kinetic camerawork and brutal hand-to-hand choreography, relentlessly conveyed through extended set pieces.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-to-hand
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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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Multiple Republicans confirmed there is no concrete proposal working its way around Capitol Hill, beyond Trump’s initial comments floating billions of dollars in spending on close-in areas from the White House and the Capitol.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The iPhone 17 is set to be the fourth gen of Apple smartphones without a physical SIM card slot in the US.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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Even today, thousands of its physical records are stored in former limestone mines in Missouri and Pennsylvania.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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Spier Hotel is only half an hour from Cape Town’s city center, so the hotel also makes a convenient base for exploring both Cape Town and the winelands.—
Heather Richardson,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Sep. 2025
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Rieger admitted that such complaints exist and are partially driven by believers failing to understand intersectionality and its purpose — applying it as a policy excuse when and where convenient.—
John Scott Lewinski,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 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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The film opens just as its predecessor ended, with a handy recap explaining how Ne Zha and his angelic counterpart, Ao Bing, ended up in need of bodily reincarnation.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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There’s also a non-slip outsole, which comes in handy when walking on slick or wet surfaces.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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They are not meant to represent a particular person or gender, but a universal corporeal state.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
27 Aug. 2025
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Elizabeth never enters the movie in any corporeal way, but the presence of her spirit looms large over the entire gloomy tale, co-written by Jory Anast.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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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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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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The woman, 41, is being held without bail at Sacramento County Main Jail on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon, and felony charges of corporal injury to a child and corporal injury of a spouse in the attack.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
19 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 10 Sep. 2025.
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