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Recent Examples of hand-to-hand
Inside a nearby training center that will soon be doubled by 40,000 square feet, recruits learn hand-to-hand combat and can access state-of-the-art gym equipment across multiple large rooms.
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Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2025
Waterbury Police Department officers reportedly observed Santos and others conducting hand-to-hand drug transactions from a car Santos was driving on March 21, 2021, according to court records.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
Combat is a big focus, with a host of available weapons – ranging from a simple sword to a machine gun-like magical parasol – and a wide variety of hand-to-hand mystical martial arts.
—Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
Recalling the unbelievable fight sequences that littered Gareth Evans’ popular Indonesian film The Raid, this work of wonder is stuffed to the brim with Tjahjanto’s signature style: kinetic camerawork and brutal hand-to-hand choreography, relentlessly conveyed through extended set pieces.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
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Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2025
Waterbury Police Department officers reportedly observed Santos and others conducting hand-to-hand drug transactions from a car Santos was driving on March 21, 2021, according to court records.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
Combat is a big focus, with a host of available weapons – ranging from a simple sword to a machine gun-like magical parasol – and a wide variety of hand-to-hand mystical martial arts.
—Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
Recalling the unbelievable fight sequences that littered Gareth Evans’ popular Indonesian film The Raid, this work of wonder is stuffed to the brim with Tjahjanto’s signature style: kinetic camerawork and brutal hand-to-hand choreography, relentlessly conveyed through extended set pieces.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-to-hand
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At a handful of locations, these spikes extended out to nearly a meter, looking more like lances than anything needed to ward off a close-in attack.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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Multiple Republicans confirmed there is no concrete proposal working its way around Capitol Hill, beyond Trump’s initial comments floating billions of dollars in spending on close-in areas from the White House and the Capitol.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Farrell was a heavy favorite due to his complete physical transformation in The Penguin, becoming barely recognizable to play villainous Oswald.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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With a mix of humor and introspection, Turturro’s speech reflected on his experiences taking care of his late brother with mental challenges and physical illness.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
14 Sep. 2025
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This is, of course, a convenient distinction.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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For consumers, that means a far more convenient and elegant experience, whether packing a weekend getaway bag or stocking a refrigerator.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Both are very valuable, but my mind often overrides intuition or the nature of what my body knows, its somatic intelligence.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
4 Sep. 2025
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Experiment with one small goal for this time to bolster mental and somatic wellbeing.—
Colin Bedell,
Them.,
26 Aug. 2025
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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
19 Sep. 2025
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This is handy because the AI will not hold back if the therapist insists that the AI be aboveboard and blunt.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Voldemort only appears in Rowling's novel as a grotesque face growing out of another character's head in that first book, and doesn't receive a full-bodied corporeal form until the climax of the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
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They are not meant to represent a particular person or gender, but a universal corporeal state.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
27 Aug. 2025
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In 2022, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 paved the way for alternatives to animal testing, and in December 2023, an NIH advisory committee made similar recommendations to develop non-animal methods.—
Rachel Fobar,
Vox,
14 May 2025
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Rendering is a process that transforms animal by-products, like leftover meat and fats...and yes, chicken feet, into usable materials, such as animal feed, fuel, and other industrial products.—
Phil Kafarakis,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Shagan and his corporal Saskia (Sophie Robertson) have broken into the safe house and are holding her family hostage.—
Nicole Briese,
People.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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The woman, 41, is being held without bail at Sacramento County Main Jail on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon, and felony charges of corporal injury to a child and corporal injury of a spouse in the attack.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Hand-to-hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand-to-hand. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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