hold
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But you really have to go to a 10-year-plus horizon for that relationship to hold.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Val Moreno looks like he’s enjoying every minute while volunteering to hold the down marker at Servite High home football games as part of the Friars’ chain crew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The weaker print could prompt the Bank of Japan to hold off raising rates as soon as next month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
She is now in debt herself and her case is, in effect, on hold.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
I try to hold on to that matter-of.fact tone.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
According to more recent reporting in Forbes, the federal government now holds equity stakes in roughly 30 different companies across a range of industries.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Dodgers starter Justin Wrobleski gives up two home runs and Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski holds the Dodgers’ big hitters at bay in Milwaukee’s 4-1 victory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Diet holds great promise for controlling the microbiome and its outputs. But to devise effective therapeutic interventions, we need to understand what aspects of the diet control which microbial outputs."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The question of who holds the power to negotiate and who does not runs through the whole storyline.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Hannah holds a Twizzlers candy stick up to my face.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The ORR said, external it was "a significant step forward" in introducing competition on the route, where Eurostar has held a monopoly on passenger services since the tunnel opened in 1994.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Wendy’s, which had held the No. 2 spot by sales since 2020, isn’t far behind Burger King in total U.S. sales, despite having hundreds of fewer locations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“What we can do is make sure that they know if you use this tool, you will be held accountable.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
The front-runner was Francesca Hong, a State Assemblywoman and DSA member who, according to the scant few surveys conducted, held a dominant lead over the moderate candidates in the field.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
A flashlight clicked on, held by the tall girl dressed as an angel.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
They were to have on them the name of the count, of the accuser, and of the accused, the charge, and the place where the court was to be holden.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
Long before we see it, it was there, but our eyes were holden.
From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
The two disciples were going to a village called Emmaus threescore furlongs distant from Jerusalem, and while they are conversing Jesus joins them, "but their eyes were holden that they should not know him."
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
His world is full of Him, only men's eyes are holden that they do not know.
From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Cora Marsland
It could only be holden in Westphalia, and almost exclusively at Dortmund or Arensberg.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
“There is this bigger angle about the commercial aspect of generative AI fiction, and then do the organizations really care about holding to that standard?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
At least two of the suspects in the sheriff’s photos can be seen holding up their phones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
His San Gregorio Polyptych, painted in 1473, depicts the Virgin Mary holding an infant Jesus Christ, flanked by St Gregory and St Benedict as well as several angels.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The governor's office said shifting winds had complicated firefighters' efforts but that "the defensive line protecting evacuated areas is holding".
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Renn was holding out a little bundle wrapped in birch bast.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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