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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
Considering that my recent sunburn sprawled across my shoulders and neck, this clever hoodie could have come in handy to prevent it (along with adequate sunscreen).
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Sian Babish,
PEOPLE,
28 June 2026
Shorts and sandals will suffice, but keep an umbrella handy too.
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Grant Gilmore,
CBS News,
27 June 2026
Keep a fungicide handy to apply as needed.
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Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 June 2026
Still, despite my issues, the Logitech Mobi Fold is a handy device.
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Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
27 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for handy
Sian Babish,
PEOPLE,
28 June 2026
Shorts and sandals will suffice, but keep an umbrella handy too.
—
Grant Gilmore,
CBS News,
27 June 2026
Keep a fungicide handy to apply as needed.
—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 June 2026
Still, despite my issues, the Logitech Mobi Fold is a handy device.
—
Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
27 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for handy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handy
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With MyRecipes, your personal home for recipes, easily save and organize your favorites, plus thousands more, in one convenient place.
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Along with providing a convenient way to drink, the tumbler serves as a lid atop the carafe, keeping dust and insects out of your water.
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The plebeians have plenty to be furious about, but their representatives, skilled at turning a crowd into a mob, seem hellbent on shoring up their own influence.
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It is stored in plain text in RAM and can theoretically be accessed by administrators, cloud operators, hypervisors, or highly skilled attackers through malware, insider threats, or side-channel attacks.
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With retail prices starting around $19,000 for entry models and climbing past $100,000 for advanced ones, rentals offer a more accessible option.
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If that conversation also seems too anxiety-provoking, focus on modes of communication that do feel accessible to you.
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See, for me, naming a snowplow isn’t just about clever wordplay.
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Later in the day, your mind finds a clever solution, a useful contact or a whole new point of view.
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And Ormund Hightower appears to be very capable at this particular game, which should come as no surprise given Otto was his uncle and the Hightowers are wildly rich and powerful.
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The powerful winds are capable of causing catastrophic damage to structures while downing trees and power lines, and producing prolonged power outages.
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There’s likely to be grasping, resisting, skillful and futile efforts to swim and worry about what’s up ahead.
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One of the few calls of the night was from Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault, ready to get his hands on the skillful point guard.
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That doesn't enable cunning and unprincipled men to subvert the power of the people.
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For decades, humans mined antibiotic molecules from microbes and tweaked them to develop new drugs, staying ahead of evolution’s cunning countermeasures.
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With so many more girls proficient at flag football entering college age, the NAIA in 2020 was first to offer scholarships and implement logistics for the sport’s next phase.
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The percentage of proficient students in grades 3 to 10 language arts climbed from 57% last year to 61% this year, while math proficiency for grades 3 to 8 climbed from 59% to 62%.
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“Handy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handy. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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