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    handful

    US /ˈhændˌfʊl/

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    UK /'hændfʊl/

    B1
    n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
    I don't need much, just give me a handful
    n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)A thing requiring great effort to control, manage
    The twins are a handful so you will need help to watch them

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    Altman joins Microsoft. 500+ OpenAI employees threaten to quit over his firing

    06:43Altman joins Microsoft. 500+ OpenAI employees threaten to quit over his firing
    • They're all just a handful of companies really running the AI debate I guess, in terms of a few companies that lead the way.

      They're all just a handful of companies really running the AI debate I guess, in terms of a few companies that lead the way.

    • a handful of companies really

      a handful of companies really

    A2

    The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart

    09:25The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
    • Take, for instance, the Komodo dragon, a giant monitor lizard that today lives on a handful of islands in eastern Indonesia.

      Take, for instance, the Komodo dragon, a giant monitor lizard that today lives on a handful of islands in eastern Indonesia.

    • a giant monitor lizard that today lives on a handful of islands in eastern Indonesia.

      a giant monitor lizard that today lives on a handful of islands in eastern Indonesia.

    B1

    How "Dad Shoes" Turned New Balance Into A $5 Billion Brand

    10:46How "Dad Shoes" Turned New Balance Into A $5 Billion Brand
    • I definitely got made fun of a lot in high school 'cause most people were wearing Nikes and Jordans, only a handful of us in school had New Balances.

      I definitely got made fun of a lot in high school 'cause most people were wearing Nikes and Jordans, only a handful of us in school had New Balances.

    • handful of us in school had New Balances.

      handful of us in school had New Balances.

    B1

    World's fastest Minis - Mini JCW GP vs ZCars Mini Busa - autocar.co.uk

    04:00World's fastest Minis - Mini JCW GP vs ZCars Mini Busa - autocar.co.uk
    • It'll really make you sweat with its unforgiving limit handling. It's a proper little handful,

      It'll really make you sweat with its unforgiving limit handling. It's a proper little handful,

    • It'll really make you sweat with its unforgiving limit handling. It's a proper little handful,

      It'll really make you sweat with its unforgiving limit handling. It's a proper little handful,

    B1

    Democratic Presidential Debate - June 26 (Full) | NBC News

    36:00Democratic Presidential Debate - June 26 (Full) | NBC News
    • HANDFUL OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE

      HANDFUL OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE

    B1

    Reef Life of the Andaman (full marine biology documentary)

    56:24Reef Life of the Andaman (full marine biology documentary)
    • Down on the reef, a fish trap has caught a handful of bony fishes

      Down on the reef, a fish trap has caught a handful of bony fishes

    C1

    Thank You Notes: Kanye and Trump, Hot Apple Cider

    03:41Thank You Notes: Kanye and Trump, Hot Apple Cider
    • Thank you, Burger King, for your new deal offering 10 chicken nuggets for a dollar, 'cause nothing says quality food like paying for meat with a handful of dimes.

      Thank you, Burger King, for your new deal offering 10 chicken nuggets for a dollar, 'cause nothing says quality food like paying for meat with a handful of dimes.

    • like paying for meat with a handful of dimes.

      like paying for meat with a handful of dimes.

    A2

    How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

    07:14How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
    • Except for a small handful of buildings built before 1981, these are pretty much all low-cost residential buildings so fortunately the only ones who are going to die are poor people.

      Except for a small handful of buildings built before 1981, these are pretty much all low-cost residential buildings so fortunately the only ones who are going to die are poor people.

    B1

    What McDonald's is serving up at its new CosMc's chain

    03:43What McDonald's is serving up at its new CosMc's chain
    • And so they are giving this a go, so they've opened this one restaurant in a suburb of Chicago and they've said that they're going to test and learn and see what they find as they open a handful of other sites.

      And so they are giving this a go, so they've opened this one restaurant in a suburb of Chicago and they've said that they're going to test and learn and see what they find as they open a handful of other sites.

    B1

    Episode 4: They Are Otterly Adorable

    35:22Episode 4: They Are Otterly Adorable
    • Sea Otters don't do that very well and it took a lot of trial and error to kind of figure that out and for the most part if you don't have an ability to really provide that maternal care for the pups that are that are rescued it's very difficult to reintegrate them back successfully into the wild and the Monterey Bay team since the mid 80s has been trying this in various forms and they they've gone you know where they had animal care staff that were you know pretty much just totally invested in trying to do everything possible to play the part of a sea otter mom and and teach these pups everything they would need to know to be able to forage and how to find food and how to break it open and and and they you know tried a number of times to rehabilitate animals like that and release them back into the into the wild and had very little success doing that and so for a long time if there was a stranded sea otter pup it was pretty much deemed non-releasable by the US Fish and Wildlife Service pretty quickly and then if you know and then provided a home was available at a at an accredited institution of an aquarium or zoo that animal would be moved into that that sort of public display type realm but what the folks at Monterey Bay Aquarium started doing was taking some of their older females in their in their exhibit their exhibit population and essentially using them as surrogate moms for these stranded pups where they would provide one of their older females with a with a newly stranded pup to see if the female would take it under her wing for lack of better word and and start raising the pup and that became a very successful program to this day it's very successful and it's starting to branch out into into some other partner facilities that that we hope hopefully we'll be working with in the future on that as well and so but the limiting factor is the number of females that can serve as surrogates because it's a very there's only a handful of them it takes a long time and there have been years where there's more pups stranding or being either abandoned or in the case of some of the animals that we brought here to Georgia Aquarium their mothers were preyed upon by white sharks and and therefore abandoned and so if there's not enough surrogates in the in the program then those animals are deemed non-releasable and an effort is made to try and place them into into aquariums and zoos.

      Sea Otters don't do that very well and it took a lot of trial and error to kind of figure that out and for the most part if you don't have an ability to really provide that maternal care for the pups that are that are rescued it's very difficult to reintegrate them back successfully into the wild and the Monterey Bay team since the mid 80s has been trying this in various forms and they they've gone you know where they had animal care staff that were you know pretty much just totally invested in trying to do everything possible to play the part of a sea otter mom and and teach these pups everything they would need to know to be able to forage and how to find food and how to break it open and and and they you know tried a number of times to rehabilitate animals like that and release them back into the into the wild and had very little success doing that and so for a long time if there was a stranded sea otter pup it was pretty much deemed non-releasable by the US Fish and Wildlife Service pretty quickly and then if you know and then provided a home was available at a at an accredited institution of an aquarium or zoo that animal would be moved into that that sort of public display type realm but what the folks at Monterey Bay Aquarium started doing was taking some of their older females in their in their exhibit their exhibit population and essentially using them as surrogate moms for these stranded pups where they would provide one of their older females with a with a newly stranded pup to see if the female would take it under her wing for lack of better word and and start raising the pup and that became a very successful program to this day it's very successful and it's starting to branch out into into some other partner facilities that that we hope hopefully we'll be working with in the future on that as well and so but the limiting factor is the number of females that can serve as surrogates because it's a very there's only a handful of them it takes a long time and there have been years where there's more pups stranding or being either abandoned or in the case of some of the animals that we brought here to Georgia Aquarium their mothers were preyed upon by white sharks and and therefore abandoned and so if there's not enough surrogates in the in the program then those animals are deemed non-releasable and an effort is made to try and place them into into aquariums and zoos.

    B1