hold down
Example Sentences
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Plus, the Federal Reserve plans to buy hundreds of billions of short-term Treasury bonds annually, another move that would pump money into the financial system and hold down rates.
From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025
Those are tactics “neither employers nor employees like but companies resort to in a pinch to hold down premium increases,” he noted.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 22, 2025
Now, he and his wife, also an audiology graduate student, each hold down multiple part-time jobs to pay their tuition, rent and other costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
Yet, to be trusted to hold down a central midfield berth for the national side in a country as football obsessed as Mexico at such a young age, you need more.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025
When his chin went hard, he was really trying to hold down the lid on a private volcano, but sometimes the lid blew.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
