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  • The girls Gold Division title should fall into the hands of Bay, which is ranked No. 8 in the area.
    Joe Magill, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Merrill said the murals were painted on sheet rock, and their fate will fall into the hands of the next owners of the property once it is sold.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Soldiers aren’t supposed to leave fallen comrades to fall into the hands of the enemy.
    Don Bentley, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Even before this end point, such weapons will likely fall into the hands of terrorists and rogue nations.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2016
  • Intelligence might fall into the hands of people not authorized to see it.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Just like the Japanese people themselves, no maps of the country were permitted to leave or fall into the hands of potential adversaries.
    Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
  • Drugs left in medicine cabinets can not only feed addiction but fall into the hands of children who can be curious, Nelson said.
    Tracy Maness, Chron, 26 Oct. 2020
  • But the unprecedented influx of arms has prompted fears that some equipment could fall into the hands of Western adversaries or reemerge in faraway conflicts — for decades to come.
    John Hudson, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
  • Proponents say these rules would thread the needle between honoring the court’s decision and making sure guns don’t fall into the hands of dangerous people.
    Hannah Wileystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Could records of people’s immune status fall into the hands of a scheming demagogue and be used for authoritarian ends?
    James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Furthermore, income data and the ability to levy taxes should not fall into the hands of utility companies.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But having one of its top technology champions fall into the hands of an American firm might be a different thing entirely.
    Willy Shih, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Even so, the debate of using AI weapons in military operations isn’t settled, with some arguing that the same algorithms the US might employ to power swarms of drones and robot tanks could also fall into the hands of adversaries.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 10 May 2021
  • So, users typically don’t consider what could happen should that information fall into the hands of malicious actors.
    Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • And federal law shields gunmakers from some liability in negligence claims, including when guns fall into the hands of children—with lethal consequences, according to Lee and her team.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 5 May 2022
  • Republican opponents said that the gun bills would impose bureaucratic burdens on law-abiding gun owners without addressing the avenues through which guns fall into the hands of people who misuse weapons.
    Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
  • This could alleviate pressing ethical concerns regarding a future where life-altering decisions could fall into the hands of AI.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2017

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