"double-handed" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, Lilli Ahrendt, Mathilde Kohl, Baby Swimming, page 116",
          "text": "With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely.",
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        "Involving both hands."
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          "ref": "2010, Steve Starling, Fishing For Dummies",
          "text": "Usually 2–3.5 metres in length, double-handed spinning rods are ideal for tackling slightly larger fish, including tailor, salmon (hahawai), trevally, flathead, snapper, barramundi, and Murray cod.",
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          "ref": "2010, Malcolm Pryce, Last Tango in Aberystwyth",
          "text": "The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act.",
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        "Involving two people."
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        {
          "ref": "2003 June, “Economic Outlook”, in OECD Economic Outlook, number 1, number 73",
          "text": "A “double-handed” strategy is called for, where the authorities show a readiness to intervene in the short run to support the economy should it flag again, while at the same time providing economic agents with a sense of long-term direction and governance to re-establish confidence.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gary Willis, The Key Issues Concerning Contemporary Art",
          "text": "Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.",
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        "Serving two purposes or involving two approaches."
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          "ref": "1835, Alphonse de Lamartine, A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land",
          "text": "Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Sukanya Banerjee, Becoming Imperial Citizens, page 131",
          "text": "While the idea of a “special post” reflects, as we have seen earlier, the double-handed way in which female professional labor was capitalized upon by the state, it also shows how the colonial bureaucracy used the vector of work to normalize a certain congruity between gender and citizenship.",
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  "word": "double-handed"
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          "ref": "2015, Nick Oldham, Edge: A Henry Christie thriller",
          "text": "Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage.",
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          "text": "I could see it the first time I met her, the way she peered at Carlo, whom she had just met. and at the gala the other night, the way she fell into Adrian Franklin and then double-handed his hand when he helped her up.",
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          "ref": "2003 June, “Economic Outlook”, in OECD Economic Outlook, number 1, number 73",
          "text": "A “double-handed” strategy is called for, where the authorities show a readiness to intervene in the short run to support the economy should it flag again, while at the same time providing economic agents with a sense of long-term direction and governance to re-establish confidence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2010, Gary Willis, The Key Issues Concerning Contemporary Art",
          "text": "Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Sukanya Banerjee, Becoming Imperial Citizens, page 131",
          "text": "While the idea of a “special post” reflects, as we have seen earlier, the double-handed way in which female professional labor was capitalized upon by the state, it also shows how the colonial bureaucracy used the vector of work to normalize a certain congruity between gender and citizenship.",
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