reach-me-down

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Adjective
  • An entrepreneurship professor liked their initial idea, a browser extension that made secondhand retail easier, and invested the first $250,000 as a grant.
    Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • Prices for secondhand apartments have fallen, too, deepening Beijing’s property woes and underlining China’s challenges beyond the US trade war, CNBC wrote.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • That’s a sign that the hand-me-down nature of music – where the sound of one generation is incorporated and reinterpreted by the next – is alive and well.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 16 July 2025
  • So go check the attic for any old hand-me-down guitars.
    Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 3 June 2025
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“Reach-me-down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reach-me-down. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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