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- noun Plural form of
handshake .
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Examples
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Still nursing the incurable phsical wounds he received as a Marine infantry scout, Rocco Gianbrocco sat before his TV set and muttered angrily the night the POWs came back from North Vietnam and got handshakes from the President on prime time.
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Still nursing the incurable phsical wounds he received as a Marine infantry scout, Rocco Gianbrocco sat before his TV set and muttered angrily the night the POWs came back from North Vietnam and got handshakes from the President on prime time.
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Still nursing the incurable phsical wounds he received as a Marine infantry scout, Rocco Gianbrocco sat before his TV set and muttered angrily the night the POWs came back from North Vietnam and got handshakes from the President on prime time.
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Yes, they observed a few outward niceties such as handshakes and forced smiles.
This Post is Rated Ex, for Excommunication. | Mind on Fire 2009
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It's funny that Mexican culture sometimes seems to place a high value on trivial properness such as handshakes and kissing cheeks while other cultural norms such as respecting the environment, not disturbing the peace, not creating noxious fumes, caring for animals etc ... are totally disregarded. enjoy life, disfrute la vida
Mexican Manners 2005
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Vendors are including "handshakes" in their devices now: there's only one reason to do this, so that they can block competitors from interoperating using the DMCA, which bans circumventing access-control.
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TR69, a series of 13 documents that define how equipment plugs in, conducts "handshakes" with networks, data models and scenarios of how devices react when different scenarios play out (e.g., how to re-provision if a line gets cut; when to send an upgrade to an STB or how to instruct a user to do an upgrade).
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TLS and SSL protocols, commonly used by banks and online retailers to protect transactions, use a series of 'handshakes' to negotiate the session between the server and the client.
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TLS and SSL protocols, commonly used by banks and online retailers to protect transactions, use a series of 'handshakes' to negotiate the session between the server and the client.
ZDNet UK Highlights 2010
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"Our work suggests that greetings involving touch, such as handshakes and cheek kisses, may in fact have critical influences on our social interactions, in an unconscious fashion."
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