hold on
Example Sentences
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Private-equity firms often use continuation vehicles to buy companies from older funds, enabling the sponsors to hold on to the businesses while giving their fund investors a chance to cash out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
“Softer spending volumes and signs of further weakness in March suggest consumers can only hold on for so long,” Shelly Kaushik, senior economist at Bank of Montreal Capital Markets, said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
In this blended, blighted family, fear has a different hold on Niall, played as an adolescent by Mitchell Robertson.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Today, it struggles to maintain its hold on the West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
He could do nothing but hold on, though not for much longer.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
