held down
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Center Deandre Ayton held down a short-handed big man rotation with 23 points and 10 rebounds.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
But Venture faces legal risks too, which have held down its stock price since it went public last year.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
The friends keep it low-tech, with an alert system consisting of fishing lines attached to plastic foam and held down by weights.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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
If not for the fifteen years of training, I would have writhed on the floor; I would have had to be held down.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
