hand it to
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The students, at least, appear to have learned one useful lesson from them: Always check the source — even when the adults hand it to you.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
It was a night of jubilation in Morocco, but anger in Senegal after the decision to strip the Senegalese national side of their continental football title and hand it to their North African rivals.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
You have to hand it to college football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Even the lone remaining bear on Wall Street had to hand it to Seagate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025
But he’d pull the comics section out and hand it to me.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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