running hand

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Recent Examples of running hand The hot local labor market is running hand in hand with a hot property market. — Claire Bushey and Peter Campbell, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023 The Great’s default mode is something close to nihilism, with violence and despair running hand in hand with opulence. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021 The lab offers weekly seminars led by technologists and runs hands-on exercises over a six-week period. — Jackson Barnett, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2019 Random visitors could even run hands over the artifacts, casually pressing buttons and toggling switches that once perhaps were used for life-and-death purposes. — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 28 June 2019 This amaro bar runs hands down the best dining deal in town, dinner for two for $35, your choice of two pasta dishes and a bottle of wine. — Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for running hand
Noun
  • For the second round of celebrations on Saturday evening, Drake traded his debonair tuxedo for a cheetah-print Chrome Hearts jacket and bright red leather trousers.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Those were taken out of the story because of the vast colorways and prints available in the other picks in this list, but AD editors still stand behind the quality.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Kaprizov scored on a breakaway, lifting a backhand shot over a sprawling Daccord.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • When one child woke up, the prosecutor said, Xuan allegedly hit them with a backhand and ordered them to go back to sleep.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • National Archives and Records Administration The exhibit features a number of historic papers, including an original engraving of the Declaration of Independence, printed from a copperplate of the original.
    — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For this work, the artist used a scraper on copperplate with determined strength, creating a print with a range of tone similar to watercolor.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
Noun
  • Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and xAI’s Elon Musk scrawled their names in erratic cursive.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Their names are painted in cursive on an exterior wall of Petitpain.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Bahdanau was working with artificial neural networks, which had already shown promise in pattern-recognition tasks such as deciphering handwriting and identifying objects in photos.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Some handwriting experts wondered whether a lack of panache in penmanship was generational.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Its sales representatives are individually building personal Gmail scripts, at night, in Google Apps Script, to survive an inbox that the AI-first version of the same company would have automated a year ago.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • To be fair, the fault here lies equally with the scripts, which dump information without first creating suspense.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

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“Running hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/running%20hand. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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