held down
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To make ends meet, he held down a job working eight hours a day operating a laser machine in a factory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
A stealthier and less obvious plan would be financial repression, in which interest rates are held down below the rate of nominal growth of the economy, which consists of real growth plus inflation.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Center Deandre Ayton held down a short-handed big man rotation with 23 points and 10 rebounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
The move in silver is ‘less of a one-off spike and more of a long overdue repricing of an asset that had been held down for more than a decade.’
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025
Amari started to remind her that they had been held down by people of their own land—people who looked just like them.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
