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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
That's where a pair of jumper cables comes in handy.
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Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2024
Never let stubborn facts get in the way of a handy one-size-fits-all narrative.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Keep track of the players joining and leaving UCLA and USC in our handy NCAA portal tracker here.
—Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
If you’re newly inspired to work through those questions and more, check out The Times’ handy guide on all things earthquake preparedness.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2024
Never let stubborn facts get in the way of a handy one-size-fits-all narrative.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Keep track of the players joining and leaving UCLA and USC in our handy NCAA portal tracker here.
—Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
If you’re newly inspired to work through those questions and more, check out The Times’ handy guide on all things earthquake preparedness.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Since the garage serves shopping malls, there's a convenient excuse for someone who needs a cover story.Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
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Kids have an in-house ski school with convenient drop-off and pick-up right outside the door.Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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In a world that is becoming increasingly more millennial gray and sad beige, Mejia points out how people seem to crave homes that are more individualized since there’s so much homogeneity in buildings due to labor and construction costs, and a lack of skilled craftsmen.Sandy Sanchez, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
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Managing Teams Through Worker Shortages The shortage of selectively skilled workers with limited experience challenges leaders to balance immediate needs with long-term growth.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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The screen was the only solution to make this accessible for the customer.Morgan Korn, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2024
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By making connectivity more accessible and affordable, these technologies can unlock the transformative power of the internet for billions of people around the world.Timothy Papandreou, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Walz’s work relies on manipulating online databases, but, like the work of MSCHF, his most clever projects bleed into the real world.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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For port days, there are shore excursions that cater to families, and the rooms have several clever arrangements like a bunk that comes out of the ceiling.Esther Carlstone, Parents, 18 Dec. 2024
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Or, consider the Greenland shark–the longest living vertebrate known to science, capable of living up to 500 years.Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The department, however, is still setting up a lab fully capable of testing for compounds and creating enforcement mechanisms.Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
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There are dozens of really skillful clergy and educators in this country who are doing this all the time, and it can be done.Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
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As Bears coach, Ditka was confident enough in his position to accept the involvement of the irascible, disrespectful but skillful defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan as necessary to the team’s Super Bowl success.Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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The diffuser and flyaway tamers were both proficient in controlling strands gone awry and helped dry our hair evenly.Alyssa Brascia, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Any proficient software developer or AI specialist would right away be suspicious that the simplest of entries is causing lengthy latency.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Finally, and most importantly, a competitive culture will reinforce a mindset essential to countering the cunning and ambitious threats in space.Charles Beames, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Amid a deadly winter, survival transforms into a perilous game of cunning and betrayal.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Handy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handy. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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