harbored
Example Sentences
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“If you harbored sock-puppet fears,” he wrote after Warsh’s debut press conference, “they should be largely gone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
When the trees of the Singer Tract were at last clear-cut beginning in 1937, however, the wolves it had harbored were shot on sight, as they were when the leases of other refuges expired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
This confirms fears that Iran has harbored for weeks or months.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Grace had harbored ambitions of succeeding her husband but was sidelined by Mnangagwa's supporters.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
Unlike Robert, Frank had joined the Communist Party with his wife, Jackie, in 1937, when they harbored the impression that the party shared their own goals of social justice.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
