- present participle of hold.
holding
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It had about $47 billion in assets as of midyear, ranking as the 57th-largest bank holding company in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
This season, both fall into the category of a 'non-footballing holding action that has no place on the football pitch'.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
If its model falls out of favor, a lender left holding it has nothing to sell.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s unclear where the money went, but the Wall Street Journal reported that billions were passed through a third party before being received by entities tied to Walter or his TWG Global holding company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Like waifs clustered around a blazing fire, we gathered about it, holding out our hearts to its warmth and light.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The inspiration for the series began with the fact that the Museum’s holdings included an actual VistaVision projector built in the early 1990s for dailies screenings but which hadn’t been used for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
By late 2022, the interest rate paid on reserves started to exceed the yield on the Fed’s holdings of Treasury debt, a necessary if not sufficient condition for ending this form of financial repression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cantor plans to serve as a broker to those clients, buying or selling blocks of event contracts and often helping to distribute those holdings to other investors through private negotiations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Would it make sense to gradually reduce our taxable cash and brokerage holdings to pay the taxes on Roth conversions, as long as the conversions keep us within the 22% federal-tax bracket?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bobby pored over Buschke’s holdings for hours, looking for that one book, that one magazine, that one luminous game that might lead him to enlightenment.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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