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hold down

verb as in grind

verb as in pin

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That has helped hold down prices even as demand rose.

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Money-management and communication problems are two of the easiest rabbit holes to fall into as a married couple, especially two people who are under a lot of stress raising kids and holding down jobs.

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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.

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The Fed’s large holdings influence the market by arguably holding down some Treasury yields.

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And, holding down the heart of the film with a gravity it probably doesn’t deserve, is Redford, running his techno-security squad with just the right balance of seen-it-all cynicism, idealism and swagger.

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