How to Use special handling in a Sentence

special handling

noun
  • Bags containing firearms had red tags fastened to them at the airport for special handling.
    oregonlive.com, 29 July 2019
  • Bonds required special handling, and nobody else could have done what Baker did.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Best of all, these details are not exclusive to a special handling package.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 2 July 2020
  • But these surfaces require the same special handling that nonstick pans require.
    Christa Glennie, wsj.com, 26 Dec. 2023
  • IRAs and other qualified funds take very special handling to ensure that you do not get hit with taxes or penalties.
    Dallas News, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Most personal items don’t require any special handling or care.
    Christopher Elliott, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • While some do require special handling, the vast majority of orchids are easy to grow, especially in our San Diego climate.
    Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Trudeau noted the Moderna vaccine does not need some of the extra special handling requirements of the one from Pfizer, including ultra cold freezers.
    Rob Gillies, ajc, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Bulk orders are the norm, as are complex shipping requirements, like special handling, delivery instructions and large, heavy items that require freight shipping by sea or rail.
    Ryan Lee, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The need for special handling of biopsies was raised during a call between federal health officials and state officials and clinicians in late August, Davidson said.
    Lena H. Sun, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • According to former officials, documents marked HCS have special handling requirements to make sure they are stored properly and not reviewed by people who are not cleared to see them.
    Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • As a single-shot vaccine that requires no special handling, J&J’s vaccine has been seen as a solution for those who might not show up for a second shot due to transportation problems, job or child-care demands or an overload of life challenges.
    Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • As for classification level, the ranges are from confidential to top secret to special handling categories, the person added.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • For example batteries need to be removed from cellphones and older, cathode-ray tube television sets require special handling due to their lead content.
    Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2021
  • The Pfizer vaccine is 95 percent effective, but requires special handling, and most be kept in special freezers and dry ice at extremely low temperatures.
    Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • But when memory is marked as not present, the permissions-checking terminates early, bypassing this special handling.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Along with the questions above, other factors that should be considered are distance traveled, number of stops, types of equipment, returns/vendor pick-ups, special handling, and delivery requirements.
    Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Now, Virgin Orbit has tested its entire launch system, including the liquid nitrogen fuel tanks that cool the entire system and require special handling.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine requires special handling and must be kept at especially cold temperatures in special freezers long-term.
    Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021
  • That includes, according to the IRS, tax year 2021 and prior returns with errors and returns requiring special handling such as those where corrections must be made relating to refundable credits.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Oxygen is delivered in bulk, liquid form to hospitals and requires special handling, Air Products is helping train military drivers in the U.K. to deliver oxygen in case that becomes necessary.
    Paul Page, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2020
  • On the second floor of the North Carolina hub, where most packages race down conveyor belts, the company is preparing to install a system that can automatically recognize packages that need special handling.
    Cade Metz, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Of these pending returns, 1.7 million require error correction or another special handling, and the remaining 1.7 million are paper filings.
    Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The following items require special handling at all times, and especially after a storm or natural disaster when the amount of waste and debris being handled increases significantly.
    Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Amazon could quickly apply its order-fulfillment and distribution capabilities to pills, which usually don’t need special handling like cold storage.
    Joseph Walker, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • Harper adds that premium (read: organic) natural ingredients require special handling and top-notch emulsification and preservation systems to ensure a two-year shelf life.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Michigan's photocopying policy doesn't apply to books, magazines, newspapers, correspondence courses and legal mail when a prisoner requests special handling.
    Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2020
  • And third, specialty drugs usually require special handling (for example refrigeration, also called cold chain technology) along with patient education and physician support.
    Richard Adams, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021

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