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The duo will hold down the fort from Times Square beginning at 5 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025

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

She recalls how Néstor Kirchner banned beef exports to hold down domestic prices, ruining her cattle farm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 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

There are bricks that hold down the corners of the tarps, and when we reach what is Dell's unit, I lift one.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan