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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 these handy over-the-counter pore minimizers come in.
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Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 3 Dec. 2024
Unlike more basic fitness trackers, this stylish smartwatch also offers handy smart features, including contactless payments and third-party apps.
—PCMAG, 3 Dec. 2024
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, 22 Nov. 2024
This handy sofa bed pulls out to create a much more comfortable sleeping space than an air mattress.
—Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 3 Dec. 2024
Unlike more basic fitness trackers, this stylish smartwatch also offers handy smart features, including contactless payments and third-party apps.
—PCMAG, 3 Dec. 2024
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, 22 Nov. 2024
This handy sofa bed pulls out to create a much more comfortable sleeping space than an air mattress.
—Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handy
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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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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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That’s possible because North America also has the world’s best higher education and skilled labor pool.Chris Turlica, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Mansouri added that Australia’s migration system emphasizes skilled migration and targets individuals with experience and qualifications in high-demand occupations.Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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Such incentives are accessible through both NASCAR.com and GOVX.com.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Despite the technical jargon, serverless computing is quite accessible to SMBs if approached correctly.Ken Pomella, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The deadlock was finally broken just before half-time as a clever pass from Yildiz found Vlahovic, who controlled it on the turn and slotted it between the ‘keeper’s legs.Adam Digby, Forbes, 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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The Philippines' Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported that the eruption triggered a pyroclastic density current—a scorching flow of ash, debris, and rocks capable of obliterating everything in its path.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Acknowledge that women might be capable of and interested in thinking about politics.Chris Vognar, The Atlantic, 9 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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Dawson plays Maritza Cruz, a high-end celebrity attorney, pulled into a headline-making case involving Fatima, a cunning young waitress who is accused of serial poisoning and murdering 28 people.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
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Since then, Putin has sought instead to rally the public to the defense of a motherland besieged by the perfidious and cunning West.Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Handy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handy. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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