held down

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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

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

Pavlich, 37, will replace Ashleigh Banfield, who held down the time period since 2021.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

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,” Baecker said.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

Try to not be held down by gravity, and see how high you rise.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas