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running hands

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plural of running hand

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Since 2018, Bernadette and Charlotte de Geyter have been designing for themselves — and other women with their penchant for pastoral prints, bows and anything pink.

— Ari Stark, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
All suites showcase cozy design with contemporary wallpaper prints, surprisingly neutral plaid furniture, and ultrasoft wool bed covers.

— Katharine Sohn, Architectural Digest, 26 Oct. 2026

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The video shows four deputies running after Garza along Interstate 10 in Palm Springs, with Garza facing the deputies several times while holding an object in his hands.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Alaska’s bid for statehood, in the late nineteen-fifties, was in part a matter of keeping the hands of Seattle businessmen off local salmon stocks.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026

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