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Recent Examples of handrail
Both Isaacman and Gillis exited the Dragon capsule separately for about 10 minutes each to take in the endless black expanse of outer space while tethered and holding onto handrails.
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
The handrail on the other side of the stairs remains.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
Upon exiting the ride, Christoper had to hold onto the handrail for support and later said that his head hurt, alleged the complaint.
—David Chiu, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
During one exceptional spacewalk repair on STS-125, Michael Massimino and Michael Good had to rip a stuck handrail off Hubble by hand in order to repair a broken spectrograph, which itself was unprecedented.
—Tariq Malik, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
The handrail on the other side of the stairs remains.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
Upon exiting the ride, Christoper had to hold onto the handrail for support and later said that his head hurt, alleged the complaint.
—David Chiu, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
During one exceptional spacewalk repair on STS-125, Michael Massimino and Michael Good had to rip a stuck handrail off Hubble by hand in order to repair a broken spectrograph, which itself was unprecedented.
—Tariq Malik, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handrail
Noun
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Clark signed autographs well beyond both baselines, her John Hancock filling up the length of the gym for fans draped over the railing behind the benches.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
29 May 2025
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Fans are lined up on railings, cheering you on and supporting you.—
Evan Crowell,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2025
Noun
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The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
14 May 2025
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Ramon Portelli for Studio NiCHE The comparatively large 10-sq-m (107-sq-ft) outdoor terrace features a bespoke limestone planter in place of a traditional balustrade.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Stairs with an original wood banister rise to the second level, and adjacent to the foyer is a parlor.—
Angela Serratore,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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The house has its original hardwood floors, and stairs with the original wood banister run up to the second floor.—
Angela Serratore,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Visually, the scene recreates most of the composition and blocking of the game cutscene, from the design on Joel’s mug to the timing of when Ellie nervously thumps the porch bannister.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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Kidman’s stairs are shrouded in fog, slicked with ice, seemingly steep, and have dangerous polar-mushrooms sprouting from the bannisters.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For starters, security is a major concern—cross-chain interactions add complexity and introduce new risks, and the guardrails to protect against them are still evolving.—
Wesley Crook,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Or have the guardrails corroded so badly that anyone now faces the prospect of the President’s pen becoming a sword?—
Miles Taylor,
Time,
3 June 2025
Noun
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In addition to serving tourists (in particular those headed to Neom), the bridge would also tie into a larger rail cargo network that Egypt has spent the past decade upgrading and would allow easier shipments of cargo from East to West.—
Adam Williams,
New Atlas,
6 June 2025
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Russia has recently accused Ukraine of sabotaging the rail network.—
Hanna Arhirova,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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“Handrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handrail. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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