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Buyers can also choose from right-hand drive or left-hand drive layouts and km/h or mph readouts.
—Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The child is tucked away in the bottom left-hand corner, but in the mind of curator and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe, his presence fills the entire frame.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
Most the world drives on the right, while left-hand traffic dominates in the United Kingdom and many former colonies of the British Empire, including India, Australia, South Africa and Singapore.
—Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The icons for the browser’s many features — such as the integrated email client, feed reader and calendar — have also been redesigned, with each given more space to breathe in the panel that runs down the left-hand side of the browser window.
—Barry Collins, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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The first known use of left-hand was
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“Left-hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/left-hand. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
left-hand
adjectiveˌleft-ˌhand
1
: located on the left
2
Medical Definition
left-hand
1 of 2 adjective1
: situated on the left
2
left hand
2 of 2 noun1
: the hand on a person's left side
2
: the left side
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