1
as in convenient
situated within easy reach
keeps a box of tissue handy whenever she watches Romeo and Juliet on her home theater
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2
as in skilled
skillful with the hands
handy with a needle and thread
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Recent Examples of handy
An adjustable elastic waistband won’t dig into your skin and cause discomfort during your trek, and a number of handy pockets provide plenty of storage space for your hiking essentials.
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Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Aug. 2025
Memory cards are extremely handy pieces of hardware.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
There's also a handy LED that indicates that the surge protector is indeed offering protection.
—Gear Team, Wired News, 18 Aug. 2025
Or perhaps try out microcurrents with a handy starter kit or treat yourself to luxury brands like Augustinus Bader.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Aug. 2025
Memory cards are extremely handy pieces of hardware.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
There's also a handy LED that indicates that the surge protector is indeed offering protection.
—Gear Team, Wired News, 18 Aug. 2025
Or perhaps try out microcurrents with a handy starter kit or treat yourself to luxury brands like Augustinus Bader.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handy
Adjective
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To talk of extinction struck many as a convenient way to distract from the existing biases, hallucinations, and other problems with AI.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
21 Aug. 2025
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Case and point: Amazon has already launched hundreds of early Labor Day deals on items like cooking tools and convenient storage solutions—but only for Prime members.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The team must be skilled in rigorous experimentation to enable translation of data into meaningful insights.—
Mohit Agrawal,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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That kind of determination and sacrifice is tough to find in a person, let alone a talented videographer who was also a skilled hunter in his own right.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In trying to get neighbors to think of them as an accessible space full of history and nature, its leadership realized their wastewater footprint.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
25 Aug. 2025
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In addition to the general distribution line, there are separate lines for recipients 65 and older, as well as people who need accessible seating.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The most memorable of those came against Sheffield United, with two blockers at the near post (marked in white) and two runners from deep (black) allowing Pascal Struijk (yellow) to score from Joe Rothwell’s clever corner.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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That the style of Beto’s documentary is so jumpy didn’t help, either, however clever the idea of making his film an episode unto itself.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There is more than a bit of Freddie Mercury flair in Boone’s stage presence, as well as his multi-octave voice capable of hitting some heavenly notes.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
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Revolution Wind was expected to be Rhode Island and Connecticut's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, capable of powering more than 350,000 homes.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The more success rolled, the more damage done, the more skillful the hack and so on.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Powell, skillful at opaque Fed-speak, nonetheless signaled a simulative change is likely.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Raheem Sterling, who arrived at Manchester City in 2015 from Liverpool as a creative wide dribbler, became one of the most proficient goalscorers from the wing in Premier League history in his prime under Pep Guardiola, and Johnson’s career could be on course to follow a similar path.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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Just 9% of fourth-graders tested scored at or above the proficient reading level, down from 12% in 2022.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Köhler specializes in cunning, tonally surprising films about cross-cultural disconnection, and Gavagai is his most ambitious and expansive film yet—a pinpoint-accurate account of moral crises and social biases, modern and ancient, internal and external.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
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But as the supervisors tweaked the incentives, a new form of cunning arose.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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“Handy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handy. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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