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Recent Examples of handrail
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.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Keep driveways and sidewalks free of ice and snow, and repair any step or handrail issues.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
No rules, no handrails, no police, no governing body.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Fortunately, the listing survives online and shows a great room on the upper level with terraces that connect to the main level via a gently curving staircase with a dark wood handrail that seems more 1910 than 2010.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2025
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Keep driveways and sidewalks free of ice and snow, and repair any step or handrail issues.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
No rules, no handrails, no police, no governing body.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Fortunately, the listing survives online and shows a great room on the upper level with terraces that connect to the main level via a gently curving staircase with a dark wood handrail that seems more 1910 than 2010.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handrail
Noun
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The daughter lost her balance and fell backwards off the railing into the ocean.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Adriana James-Rodil,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Take them outdoors, hang them over a railing, and whack them with a broom handle or similar tool.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And the staircase, with its intricate carvings of flowers, gargoyles, and swans all across the balustrade, took my breath away.—
Jalyn Robinson,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Sep. 2025
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Seven levels of the gallery rise around a central staircase of frosted glass and ornate brass balustrades that seem to float upward, and a glass modern elevator that blends modern with classical chic.—
Erica Wertheim Zohar,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The helicopter, its body on the stairwell bannister, was wedged between the trees and the lampposts bracketing the entrance to the stairs.—
Sydney Barragan,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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At that moment, the two men ran for safety — Holguin jumping into his SUV in the driveway and Silva leaping onto a banister along the front porch.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Inter-agent trust — the tendency for an AI agent to trust other AI agents by default — can also be exploited to get around the guardrails built into popular systems.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Oct. 2025
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The light turns angular and the ranges run like guardrails toward Mexico.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Many of them took to the roads and rails, freaking out elite and middle-class white Protestants, who generally viewed married, settled life as the foundation of a successful society.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2025
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The General Assembly has given Mecklenburg County permission to put a referendum on the ballot to raise the county’s sales tax to fund road, rail and bus projects.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Handrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handrail. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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