handful
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- noun
- /ˈhændfəl/
:
puñado
- There really are only a handful of organizations in the entire world that can snatch somebody off a street like that.
- only a handful
- just a handful
- a handful of studies
I know that I'm going to be looking at a handful of characters.
- I know that I'm going to be looking at a handful of characters.
- And there's there's a a handful of them that have been fantastic.
- There are just a handful of people that you can use one name.
- You know a handful of people, they will also forget soon enough.
- I, I looked on Amazon and I could find a handful.
- So you you're really aiming for the the handful that returned the fund.
- Dave had a probably want a handful of episodes on his show.
- But are is that handful of quarters on this whole football field?
Examples
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Of those few students, a handful obtained magazines and journals at the LaGuardia Library.
Academic text (2008) -
You could see visually that there were only a handful of unique devices.
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There are just a handful of people that you can use one name.
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So I doubt that more than a handful have ever been in your position.
Fiction book (1991) -
A handful of their precious young ones have been sent into the world of man.
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And that's far more important than a handful of people in this small town.
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In small communities, an individual or handful of individuals might adequately represent each constituency.
Academic text (2017) -
In its center was the Vatican, just a handful of acres, really, but a sovereign country nonetheless.
Fiction book (1991) -
There's only a handful of people in the entire world who can do it at the level that you're gonna be asked to do it.
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Only a handful of students attended the extra class on Saturday.
Synonyms
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A small number of people or things
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A small number of people or things, more than one but not many
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A small number of people or things, not many
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More than two but not many people or things
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An amount you can hold in one hand or a small number of things
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Etymology
The word handful can also mean 'a small number', and a helpful way to remember this is to imagine a small group you could hold in one hand.