How to Use get/have a handle on in a Sentence
get/have a handle on
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In recent years, a number of states have tried to get a handle on the issue.
—Emily Tate Sullivan, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
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The best way to get a handle on this divine welter is to take a walking tour.
—David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
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Nedeljkovic made 28 saves but couldn’t get a handle on Pelech's winner.
—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
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That’s because Titus, too, isn’t an easy guy to get a handle on.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 18 July 2024
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The slaying comes as cops try to get a handle on an uptick in murders and assaults in and around Times Square.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 9 July 2024
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The trade group is now tracking the issue through other means and working to get a handle on the specifics of the problem.
—Evan Clark, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
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Most models have a handle on the top and rubber feet at the bottom to ensure a firm grip.
—Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
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Crews had the Basin fire 17% contained after days of being unable to get a handle on the fire.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
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By then, the FBI was starting to get a handle on the extent of the problem — if not exactly what to do about it.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
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The feeling that the Stars have a handle on things took a bad spill Sunday night when Heiskanen went down for far, far too long.
—Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
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In recent years, several states have tried to get a handle on the issue.
—Emily Tate Sullivan, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
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How to get a handle on your finances after being let go from your job.
—Ron Lieber, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
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As the summer begins, Bronx cops are trying to get a handle on an 8% jump in shootings in the borough this year.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
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But even the most tech-savvy person might struggle to get a handle on every detail.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
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Towns around the state had tried various ways to get a handle on the issue, leading to a patchwork of efforts.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
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Public health officials are still trying to get a handle on the drug, as well as how best to respond to it.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
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New trade agreements to rectify this oversight are needed if the world is to get a handle on food prices.
—Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2022
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It’s been a difficult condition to get a handle on, or treat.
—Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2023
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At the end of the series, so many of the other characters seem to have a handle on their own equations and are moving forward with their lives.
—Vulture, 2 June 2023
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As a result, governments struggle to get a handle on the real threats and risks already out there.
—Marietje Schaake, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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In the letter, the church official was concerned something bad would happen if police did not get a handle on things.
—Vincent Hill, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
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School districts are trying to get a handle on the technology.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
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The leak will only up the stakes for Fulton County to get a handle on a cyberattack that has hobbled services for weeks.
—Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
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In parts of Portland, those ambitions have stalled as leaders try to get a handle on the mounting homeless crisis.
—Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
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Ricky must learn how to set his own schedule, something the constantly late and often apologetic man can’t seem to get a handle on.
—Matthew Creith, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2025
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Impossible to get a handle on with one lone visit — or six visits even.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 15 Apr. 2024
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Of course, refinancing is not your only option to get a handle on student loan debt.
—Becca Stanek, theweek, 18 Oct. 2024
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Also last month, a co-founder of Salt & Straw ice cream shops said the company would move its Southeast Portland headquarters out of state if the city didn’t get a handle on crime.
—oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
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The company has been scrambling to raise cash to get a handle on liabilities that totaled about $187 billion at the end of June.
—BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
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California fire authorities have started to get a handle on the chewing up the area around , but much work remains.
—James Bickerton, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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