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But first, grab a hankie.
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refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2021
Titanic remains a four-hankie crowd-pleaser par excellence, elevating a paper-thin love story to the scale of myth by placing it against the backdrop of incalculable human tragedy.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
Pulling a hankie out To wipe your brow surreptitiously.
—Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
From the corner of his eye, Williams could see the umpire reaching for his yellow hankie before Dak could even round the corner on his scramble.
—Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022
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refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2021
Titanic remains a four-hankie crowd-pleaser par excellence, elevating a paper-thin love story to the scale of myth by placing it against the backdrop of incalculable human tragedy.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
Pulling a hankie out To wipe your brow surreptitiously.
—Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
From the corner of his eye, Williams could see the umpire reaching for his yellow hankie before Dak could even round the corner on his scramble.
—Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022
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“Hankie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hankie. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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