handled

[han-dld]

adjective

1. fitted with or having a handle or handles, especially of a specified kind (often used in combination).

   a handled pot; a long-handled knife.

Word History and Origins

Origin of handled¹

First recorded in 1775–85; handle + -ed ³

Example Sentences

“When it comes to creditors, not all assets in an estate are handled in the same way,” according to Wright Ford Young.

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Instead, the specialist who handled her scans found the pattern of damage to her brain matched the symmetrical injuries seen in soldiers who had been exposed to gases during combat.

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The orchestral writing, nicely handled by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, can be colorful, though the ominous Wagner tubas become predictable after a while and the electronica for which Mr. Bates is best known is barely discernible.

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The final parade of “national” songs was also cleverly handled: The characters, now appropriately costumed, stepped into a large frame, in front of a throne-room background, to perform.

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There were sporadic events requiring either police or federal law-enforcement intervention, she wrote, but “nowhere near the type of incidents that cannot be handled by regular law enforcement forces.”

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