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Examples
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And he, despite his cool head, lost it another time on a shelf, a scant twelve inches wide, where all hand-holds seemed to fail him.
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And hands that found no holds, doubled into bunches of knuckles that impacted on the jaws of the watchers who strove to tear hand-holds from the rope.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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In 2007, Yamaha made several minor modifications—including half-doors and more passenger hand-holds—to increase the Rhino's safety.
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Sporty details abound: Speedo and tacho dials get equal prominence, unencumbered by integrated displays; the steering has thicker hand-holds and a sporty diameter; the gear lever is a handful of metal, not the size-zero lever of the earlier 5.
Black or White? 2010
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Sporty details abound: Speedo and tacho dials get equal prominence, unencumbered by integrated displays; the steering has thicker hand-holds and a sporty diameter; the gear lever is a handful of metal, not the size-zero lever of the earlier 5.
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Sporty details abound: Speedo and tacho dials get equal prominence, unencumbered by integrated displays; the steering has thicker hand-holds and a sporty diameter; the gear lever is a handful of metal, not the size-zero lever of the earlier 5.
Black or White? Sirish Chandran 2010
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After futile efforts to chop holes in the glacier for hand-holds, the rope begins slipping and Smoke cuts it to prevent Carson from falling with him.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008
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While he was around, kicked after a defeat or voted in by a landslide, he provided psychological hand-holds in a post-1950s world where there was always mysterious and dangerous trouble lurking somewhere.
Phil Bronstein: No Tricks Here: Dick Cheney Has Become Nixon 2.0 2009
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The GOP response to the convention thus far is tepid because it presents few hand-holds.
New Ad To Run In Minneapolis Is All About McCain's POW Past 2009
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Hard to believe now—impossible then—but up the side of the Feronia he must have climbed, punching hand-holds as he came, though why he chose to abandon shelter when the risk was greatest I do not know.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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