holding pattern
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City have appealed against the verdict, but until the dust settles and final decisions are made, this Premier League season is in a holding pattern.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The S&P 500 has been in holding pattern for two months now, its progress stalled by bond-market carnage and its technicals undermined by the narrow breadth of stocks keeping up the index.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and his seemingly supernatural competence at both city management and marketing, has laid a blueprint for kitchen-table progressives looking to bust out of the Trump-era holding pattern.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
In advance of Nvidia’s earnings, investors didn’t have much else to parse, turning a breakneck rally into more of a holding pattern, said Gina Martin Adams, chief market strategist at HB Wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
But the room, although dim, isn’t dark enough, so I switch my mind into the holding pattern that passes for attention.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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