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The phrase "at second hand" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically means information or an item obtained from someone else, rather than directly from the original source. Example sentence: "I heard about the new job opening at second hand from a colleague who works in the same industry."
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This isn't Neiman Marcus's first try at second hand.
Really good vintage wallpaper at Second Hand Rose.
Opening the sports pages, we look to refresh our pleasure at second hand.
His beliefs have been transmitted at second hand, through a summary in Aristotle's Metaphysics.
"Clearly the people writing about them weren't the people doing them: they heard at second hand.
Miss Keble, who had not experienced this aspect of life, was aware without resentment that she lived at second hand.
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We kill them by accident, or at second-hand through our technologies, our pets, or our fellow-traveller pests.
indulge in science at second-hand and dispense totally with logic". And still the book sold well, and influenced Victorian science, art, and public opinion.
Two obvious questions arise: which market and which value? Are the assets of a business to be valued in their present location and use (their worth to the firm), at second-hand or even scrap value?
"A giveaway to start a fire sale at second-hand car yards and Harvey Norman is good, as far as it goes, but it doesn't go very far," he said.
He had been aggressively pursuing other work, while watching his bank account shrink daily, forcing him to cut back so much that he bought his clothes at second-hand stores and fixed his own car.
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