1
as in convenient
situated within easy reach
keeps a box of tissue handy whenever she watches Romeo and Juliet on her home theater
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as in skilled
skillful with the hands
handy with a needle and thread
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Recent Examples of handy
Keep the umbrella handy on Thursday as passing showers and storms will stick around.
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Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 11 May 2026
As for more frequent refrigerator clean-outs, your handy handheld can come into play, too.
—Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 10 May 2026
Previously, Buffett provided a handy blueprint for Berkshire’s management goals.
—Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
The wide-leg pants are relaxed without looking sloppy and the zip-up jacket comes in handy when the plane or a cafe suddenly feels like a refrigerator.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026
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Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 11 May 2026
As for more frequent refrigerator clean-outs, your handy handheld can come into play, too.
—Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 10 May 2026
Previously, Buffett provided a handy blueprint for Berkshire’s management goals.
—Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
The wide-leg pants are relaxed without looking sloppy and the zip-up jacket comes in handy when the plane or a cafe suddenly feels like a refrigerator.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handy
Adjective
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With MyRecipes, your personal home for recipes, easily save and organize your favorites, plus thousands more, in one convenient place.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
10 May 2026
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While some options are more convenient than others, the most important thing to consider is your pet’s overall well-being.—
Jessie Quinn,
USA Today,
10 May 2026
Adjective
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San Diego’s defense, life sciences and technology industries depend on highly skilled professionals who come here and contribute.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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For anything beyond a quick fix, working with a skilled pro can help ensure the job is done right—saving you time, stress and often money in the long run.—
Angie Hicks,
Boston Herald,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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There are two accessible rooms at the hotel.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 May 2026
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Tomato plants forming a dense hedge that is accessible only via the canopy.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Its hero is Miss Maple, certainly the cleverest sheep in the flock, probably the cleverest sheep in the village of Glennkill, and maybe the cleverest sheep in the world.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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But this is a clever essay about making sense of the ambiguous advice that people love to dispense, from someone who is willing to explain which ones actually proved helpful to his own film journey.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
8 May 2026
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Djed Spence and Tino Livramento have the advantage over Alexander-Arnold in being able to play on both sides of the back four, but the Real Madrid man is a wildcard capable of special moments.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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The light triggered a chemical rearrangement inside the crystal, reshaping its internal architecture and creating tiny cavities capable of trapping water molecules from the air.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
12 May 2026
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This country has produced leaders who understood that the office was never about them, that service means something, and that the people watching from home deserve better than a system that rewards the skillful exit over the honest reckoning.—
Nick Weston,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 May 2026
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Miami coach Mario Cristobal is known for his skillful recruiting of top prospects.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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There’s arguably no one better placed to collaborate with VFX artists on a motion-capture performance than Serkis, who’s delivered innocence, cunning, cruelty, longing, and kindness in roles that run from Golum to Caesar to King Kong himself.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
4 May 2026
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As Michael moves into solo stardom and makes cunning business moves, the film captures how his seemingly naive idealism was also a form of ambition.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
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Only a third of K-8 students are proficient in core subjects, test data shows.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
9 May 2026
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Just talks about how proficient everybody else is at doing their job.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2026
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“Handy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handy. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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