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handful
[ hand-fool ]
noun
- the quantity or amount that the hand can hold:
a handful of coins.
- a small amount, number, or quantity:
a handful of men.
- Informal. a person or thing that is as much as one can manage or control:
The baby's tantrums made him a handful.
handful
/ ˈhændfʊl /
noun
- the amount or number that can be held in the hand
- a small number or quantity
- informal.a person or thing difficult to manage or control
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Major League Baseball will run the same experiment, with a different handful of teams.
Freeman’s idea for greater technological transparency started with a handful of waterproof pages he posted around his Alabama neighborhood.
Her comments come as the government reveals plans to merge the UK's local government pension scheme, a group of funds which together manage £354bn in investments, into a handful of "pension megafunds".
He estimated that trenches crossed into the AoS in a handful locations, by a couple of metres in each case, but said he had not visited the sites himself.
Its products are already in use in a handful of L.A.
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