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This is war behind the cannons, with no triumphs or heroes, no moral victories or defeats to be had, just a handful of gaunt and terrible-looking men strewn across a land ravaged by war like penitents fleeing a great disaster.

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With every handful of the powder they throw into the air, their white saris slowly start to suffuse with color.

There are fewer than a handful of palu left on this island.

Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage.

But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid fabrication and the maker movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers working in my lab over the course of a handful of months to build a prototype radar.

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