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Recent Examples of handrail
Drywood termites don’t make colonies underground but live in structural timbers or even furniture and handrails inside a home.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
This isn’t a tourist cave tour with handrails and electric lighting.
—Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
There is also no handrail on the basement steps.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
The city determined that because the stairway historically has had one handrail, the team will not need to add a second one as part of the repair and can leave the existing handrail in place.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
This isn’t a tourist cave tour with handrails and electric lighting.
—Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
There is also no handrail on the basement steps.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
The city determined that because the stairway historically has had one handrail, the team will not need to add a second one as part of the repair and can leave the existing handrail in place.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handrail
Noun
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Designed for apartments and homes with limited space, balcony systems feature one or two photovoltaic panels that mount on railings or walls and plug into a standard household electrical outlet.—
Calvin Ball,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2026
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Its back end was propped on the 3-foot-tall metal railing of the boarding platform.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There is a staircase with a decorative wrought-iron balustrade railing, a bedroom with bold, flower wallpaper, and in what appears to be an entry way, Rococo gilt-wood mirrors.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
23 Dec. 2025
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Think ornate stuccoes, regal salons, wrought-iron balustrades, and panoramic terraces that offer breathtaking views of Palermo and the verdant Piana dei Colli.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Here, staircases are lined with Red Alder banisters and paintings by Canadian artist Fred Peters.—
Jennie Nunn,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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That religious practice would lead to the famous Shaker aesthetics, most notably seen in furniture, but also wooden boxes, staircases, banisters, and architecture.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Visitors to K’gari are warned of the risks, but James says young foreign nationals like his daughter, who work on the island, need firmer guardrails.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
24 Jan. 2026
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First, there are no guardrails on the number of developments, samples, or prototypes that the brand can request.—
Raj Dhiman,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The visit comes months after the fatal August stabbing of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on the city’s LYNX Blue Line light rail.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2026
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But as the season progressed, the [shudders] discourse really went off the rails.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Handrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handrail. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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