as in grip
the act or manner of holding she tried to maintain her tight handhold on the umbrella as the wind picked up

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Recent Examples of handhold These may include handholds for incline pushups, footrests for decline pushups or both. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 July 2025 Simple adaptations, such as adding handholds onto the walls in a spacecraft, can provide vital assistance. Jesse Rhoades, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025 So, too, was Stella specifically designed to support Menzel and her costars’ mid-air endeavors: Special attention was paid to carving covert handholds into her bark. Luna Adler, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2025 Four semicircular notches along one side appeared very like handholds. Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handhold
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Noun
  • With a good-looking frame and lower-body athleticism, Smith does an outstanding job keeping his feet beneath him to square up defenders, extend his arms and use his grip strength to control his man.
    Dane Brugler, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • While these relatives possessed human-like hand proportions, their grip strength more likely resembled one of today’s great apes.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Utah, Nolen says that public health officials have a good grasp on where measles is spreading thanks to wastewater monitoring that can capture virus levels beyond official case counts, and where the risk is elevated due to low vaccination rates.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Cooper’s grasp of the material is unerring, imbuing it with a sweetness that’s never cloying, a generosity of spirit that’s never unearned.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Handhold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handhold. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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