- present participle of hold.
holding
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Clamping down on the worst of the holding to change player behaviour, while still allowing physical contact, is a difficult sweet spot to hit.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Elsewhere, crypto holding group Strategy stock jumped 9.4%, building on a 13% gain in the last session, while Mara Holdings added 5.5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
If its model falls out of favor, a lender left holding it has nothing to sell.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s unclear where the money went, but the Wall Street Journal reported that billions were passed through a third party before being received by entities tied to Walter or his TWG Global holding company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Mr. Andrews stands with a man carrying a modern-looking camera and a younger woman holding other pieces of photography equipment.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Judge said he regularly sees swings in the tens of thousands of dollars, which is not a problem in itself, but depends on the size of the person’s total holdings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 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
“All of President Trump’s investment holdings are in held in fully discretionary accounts managed by independent third-party financial institutions,” Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Housing was not the only sector where Berkshire added to existing holdings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Spain saw this arrangement as a buffer to its North American holdings, which at the time included the lower Mississippi and the city of New Orleans.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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