holdout
Example Sentences
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Another holdout has been General Motors, the U.S.’s largest automaker by volume.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
That disloyal, greedy kid at the center of college football’s first apparent holdout?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
The last major obstacle to Kevin Warsh’s confirmation as Federal Reserve chair has been removed, with holdout Sen. Thom Tillis ending his threat to block it.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Facebook owner Meta is one holdout among major tech companies backing Anthropic's action.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
Here and there a Luddite holdout refuses to open an email account, just as thousands of years ago some human bands refused to take up farming and so escaped the luxury trap.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
