as in homemade
created by a hand process rather than by a machine
received a handmade sweater at the baby shower
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Recent Examples of handmade
One woman held a handmade poster featuring photos of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two Minnesotans killed by federal agents last month, alongside Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in the blue bunny hat who was taken from his home in Minneapolis to a detention facility in Texas.
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Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Limited-production, handmade cars can demand a lot of costly attention when fixes are in order, and in this respect, an Alvis is no different from a Rolls-Royce or Bentley of the era.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026
Scratch Goods is a business specializing in handmade skin care in the West Loop, but on Friday the two owners were carrying out business of a different kind.
—Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
The adjacent fireplace is adorned with handmade ceramic plates by Makoto Kagoshima on one side and a Bower Studios mirror on the other.
—Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 28 Jan. 2026
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Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Limited-production, handmade cars can demand a lot of costly attention when fixes are in order, and in this respect, an Alvis is no different from a Rolls-Royce or Bentley of the era.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026
Scratch Goods is a business specializing in handmade skin care in the West Loop, but on Friday the two owners were carrying out business of a different kind.
—Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
The adjacent fireplace is adorned with handmade ceramic plates by Makoto Kagoshima on one side and a Bower Studios mirror on the other.
—Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handmade
Adjective
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Bushra Mahnoor, a reproductive rights activist, counts herself among a small proportion of women and girls in Pakistan – about 12%, according to the UN’s children’s agency (UNICEF) – who use commercial sanitary products, rather than homemade alternatives.—
Sana Noor Haq,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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But sometimes, homemade just isn’t in the cards.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
11 Feb. 2026
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The photo albums—handcrafted binders assembled over the course of five decades—are crammed with small prints glued to card stock and annotated in Richards’s cursive script.—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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The resort’s own farm provides many of the ingredients for its three restaurants, offering fusion-forward menus and handcrafted cocktails.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Handmade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handmade. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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