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hold

[hohld] / hoʊld /










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He will hold up his golden ticket and believe, as Mussolini believed, that the spectacle belongs to him.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

The automation technology business will hold its analyst event in New York June 11 External link.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Poverty, she says of those years, was “a pair of vacant eyes, nothing in them anymore, no strength to hold hope.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Traditional direct air capture systems typically rely on heat and negative pressure to release captured CO2 from the materials that hold it.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

“Git a hold on his head,” he told me.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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