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Recent Examples of hand-to-hand
Dozens of Marines were captured on aerial footage Tuesday practicing hand-to-hand combat and crowd control on Seal Beach field, just south of L.A. County.
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Michael Dorgan , Liz Friden , Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
The sky is instantly filled with flying arrows, falling victims right and left, as attackers on horseback and on foot zoom in and out frame, shooting, stabbing, scalping and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
—Todd Longwell, Variety, 10 June 2025
Plenty of gunfights and hand-to-hand combat too, all the better to keep things as fast-moving and confounding as possible.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 May 2025
The first weapons devised by man were designed for hand-to-hand combat.
—Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025
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Michael Dorgan , Liz Friden , Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
The sky is instantly filled with flying arrows, falling victims right and left, as attackers on horseback and on foot zoom in and out frame, shooting, stabbing, scalping and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
—Todd Longwell, Variety, 10 June 2025
Plenty of gunfights and hand-to-hand combat too, all the better to keep things as fast-moving and confounding as possible.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 May 2025
The first weapons devised by man were designed for hand-to-hand combat.
—Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-to-hand
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Through incremental agreements, for instance, Trump and Xi could address specific issues such as maritime security and freedom of navigation by agreeing to a code of conduct along with protocols for managing close-in naval encounters.—
WILLIAM HURST,
Foreign Affairs,
3 July 2025
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Some have compared the relative affordability of Astoria today to that years ago in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which was seen as a close-in refuge from Manhattan’s high costs, until its own skyrocketing prices dimmed that luster.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The physical attributes that helped these women get recruited likely led to their low rates of maternal mortality.—
Ann Foster,
JSTOR Daily,
9 July 2025
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Creating spaces — physical or digital — that evoke deep emotional connection builds loyalty that no marketing funnel can replicate.—
Sudhir Gupta,
Rolling Stone,
9 July 2025
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The headphones provide a private and convenient way to stream audio over Bluetooth while playing guitar.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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The zipper is way more convenient than a bag with only one loose latch, and the long handles always stay put on my shoulders.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
People.com,
5 July 2025
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The results showed that students with low differentiation — those who were more emotionally enmeshed with others — experienced higher social anxiety, fear of judgment, stress and more somatic symptoms like headaches, fatigue or physical tension.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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Her approach to stress and trauma aligns with a growing body of work in the somatic therapy field, which focuses on how the body stores and processes stress.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 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.—
Jason Lipshutz,
Billboard,
4 July 2025
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Google Photos has always been a handy way to store and organize your pictures, but its latest feature, Ask Photos, is taking things to a whole new level.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 July 2025
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But all of Caland’s brilliantly hued canvases are also fleshy and funny and female, in ways that speak of bold corporeal pleasure.—
Lori Waxman,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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For corporeal creatures such as humans, grappling with a universe that might not be singular, time that moves in many directions, and matter that both does and does not exist is mind-bending, to say the least.—
Andrea Gawrylewski,
Scientific American,
3 June 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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The Marin County District Attorney’s Office filed charges of assault with a deadly weapon, felony child abuse, assault likely to produce great bodily injury and corporal injury on a child.—
Cameron Macdonald,
Mercury News,
17 June 2025
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On August 29, 2024, Chigvintsev was arrested on suspicion of corporal injury to spouse, Garcia filed for divorce in September.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
3 June 2025
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“Hand-to-hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand-to-hand. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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