hand-to-hand

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Recent Examples of hand-to-hand The wide shots of Tommy stepping onto the main street of Jackson, burning in the snow, are a riot of gore and desperate hand-to-hand action that neither our focus character nor any but the most dedicated rewatch viewers will fully catch. Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025 The director even goes as far as removing David Holmes’ score during the hand-to-hand combat scenes. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025 Here was fought a strenuous trench and hand-to-hand battle between German defenders and Russian attackers. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2025 The preview also shows the 59-year-old taking the lead, engaging in hand-to-hand combat, and firing a gun. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hand-to-hand
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-to-hand
Adjective
  • 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
  • Add to that the close-in communications, collaboration and the sharing of ideas.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • It's been a season where physical strength and unwavering loyalty have held more weight than the deception and betrayal commonly found in previous seasons of the long-running reality competition show.
    Emily DeLetter, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Thanks to therapy and physical rehab, Foxx has come a long way since then.
    Staff Author, EW.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • The script is lean enough that there really isn’t room for narrative flubs besides one breakdown that’s a bit too convenient.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
  • Commercial flights, meanwhile, are rarely convenient for such short-haul trips.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • This can be performed on the tumor tissue itself to identify changes called somatic mutations that occurred after you were born.
    Jason P. Joseph, The Conversation, 21 May 2025
  • The therapies that made the biggest difference for Finch were the safe and sound protocol, which targets the nervous system via music, and somatic therapy, a mind-body healing method for trauma recovery. Create a schedule.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This is where the manufacturer’s tag comes in handy.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 31 May 2025
  • 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, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Having just driven from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in the wee hours of the morning, Castro was contending with a central theme of her album in real time: the chasm between her dreams and the limits of her corporeal form.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • But the sale of these items, which some Buddhists consider corporeal remains of the Buddha, has sparked criticism.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • But a spokesperson for the sheriff’s department said he had been arrested on suspicion of corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • He has also been convicted for corporal injury on a spouse, battery on a non-prisoner while in prison and possession of a deadly weapon while in prison, state prison officials said.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Hand-to-hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand-to-hand. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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