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
She said unless a rebuilding authority is established that can buy properties and hold down land values, that sort of community won’t come back.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025
He raised up the tarp and pulled it over them and then used the rocks to hold down the edges inside.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
