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as in to treat
to behave toward in a stated way handles all requests professionally, even when customers are rude

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as in to operate
to control the mechanical operation of learned how to handle basic woodworking power tools

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noun

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Recent Examples of handle
Verb
The system could also handle the additional load of an electric-car-charging station in the garage, should the next owner want to add one, according to Kardos. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2025 Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
Wear has around twenty-eight thousand followers on X, compared with the more than six million who follow Kirk’s handle. Michael Luo, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025 Marsh opened up about what happened to her husband in a post shared to TikTok under the handle jaimemarsh80. Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handle
Verb
  • The dispute affected educators and policymakers statewide — but Pendleton managed to take the best of both literacy methods and apply them to the 130,000-plus students then enrolled in San Diego schools, Lopez said.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This was big news in an evolving saga of how college athletics departments, facing seismic financial change, would manage to cope with growing costs like revenue-sharing with athletes.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • He was treated at the same facility as Nichols.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Jillian, who police say had no involvement in the hit-and-run and was standing in her own yard, was later taken into custody and treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The schools are considered public and receive taxpayer dollars, but operate differently from public schools that are run by a district.
    Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Some offer ergonomic designs, but all just need your elbow grease to operate.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2025
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  • In their recommendation, Warner and Kaine said Nachmanoff supervised a team that represented more than 2,500 clients accused of federal violations ranging from petty offenses to capital murder.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Erica Hayes is supervising director.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • Kirk is being celebrated as a champion of free speech who was willing to debate anyone anywhere and who was killed by someone who could not tolerate his views.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Surprisingly, marine life appeared to tolerate toxins like TNT and RDX.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now, Stern, who co-founded Apple Fitness+ and previously oversaw Ford's subscription services, aims to upgrade Peloton's products in an effort to match its wide range of class types with its hardware.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Major League Soccer is promoting Charles Altchek, considered by many to be a potential future commissioner, to oversee the group that aids clubs in their business efforts.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Consciousness, human life, utterly in the grip of its own dreamlife, all our thinking and voicing caught in a web of surreal distortion, generated by our irrational yearning and apprehensions, our appetite for myth, our solipsism.
    Jane Ciabattari September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Its deep pockets ensure a secure hold on even thick mattresses, and the 360-degree elastic band offers extra grip — making light work of taking the cover on and off.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Investors saw this in quarterly earnings reports from Club holdings Meta Platforms, Amazon, and other Big Tech names, which raised their capital expenditures.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The alert lists the products' names, UPC numbers, sizes, sell-through dates, store banner names and states for the affected products.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Handle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handle. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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