- present participle of hold.
holding
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I am concerned about holding onto an expensive property for another 10-20 years when I don’t know where my children will ultimately live or whether they will even want or be able to maintain it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The son of the founder of Italy's Luxottica is set to leave the world's leading eyewear group EssilorLuxottica, a spokesperson said Tuesday, against a backdrop of tensions surrounding the family holding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The company is restricting promotions to key shopping windows, such as back-to-school, while holding the line on discount depth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
I felt even cooler holding my sword, knees bent, feet wide, ready and waiting in my “advance” stance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
The angel was stretched across the ground at the river’s edge, holding on to something that thrashed in the raging current.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The Louisiana site is far larger than the company’s land holdings for its Starbase facility outside of Brownsville, Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The state has some $15 billion in unclaimed property, including securities, such as stock holdings, mutual funds, and retirement accounts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
By late 2022, the interest rate paid on reserves started to exceed the yield on the Fed’s holdings of Treasury debt, a necessary if not sufficient condition for ending this form of financial repression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The inspiration for the series began with the fact that the Museum’s holdings included an actual VistaVision projector built in the early 1990s for dailies screenings but which hadn’t been used for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
We pass holdings and farmhouses, dogs that bark and take little runs to scare us off their territory.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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