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Recent Examples of handbasketThere’s plenty of hell-in-a-handbasket rhetoric about young people today.—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2025 Everything has gone to hell in a handbasket as a result of it.—NBC News, 6 Oct. 2024 Everything has gone to hell in a handbasket as a result of it.—NBC News, 6 Oct. 2024 If the purpose of this essay were to merely shout at the heavens, proclaiming that the world is going to hell in a handbasket because of rampant biblical illiteracy on Earth, many may be tempted to dismiss my concerns — flippantly enough.—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020 At least as much as an unemployed football coach and his hell-in-a-handbasket Mayberry RFD nostalgia.—al, 10 Dec. 2019 On the 1st hole, a gone-to-hell-in-a-handbasket iron plops down in the second cut.—Jack McCallum, SI.com, 27 June 2018 Theft, West Bagley Road: Police hope to identify and arrest a man who stole a handbasket filled with merchandise at about 3:45 p.m. July 24 from Dollar General, 390 West Bagley Road.—Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 27 July 2017
That cargo is then loaded onto container handlers that operate exclusively within the confines of the port, bringing the crates closer to the roads or rail lines that will take them further.
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Tim Stevens,
ArsTechnica,
19 May 2025
Statues are shown tagged and wrapped before shipment, sealed in wooden crates, drilled shut as if in reverse enslavement, and soon to be carted away by a white crew wearing Covid masks.
That extra room has been used to install a set of shelves behind the driver and passenger seats that each have a strap to hold bags in place and increase trunk size.
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
27 May 2025
These occur in younger dogs and, while usually on legs or the trunk, can be on the skin near the eyelid margins.
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