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[hohl] / hoʊl /




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Material falling toward a black hole, for example, often forms a swirling disk around it before moving inward.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

In interviews, several of his children described the yawning hole that his death had left in their lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

A viewer’s guide to Warren Buffett’s nightly trips down the YouTube rabbit hole.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Plus: Community banks swing back at Trump regulators over crypto charters, and a near-catastrophe on flight 1073 exposes gaping hole in Dubai’s aviation security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Betsie told me about each of her cellmates—and I told her about mine and the little hole into which they scrambled at any emergency.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

However, under an equally plausible reading of the evidence, the companies are black holes of spending on rapidly commoditizing capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In November 2020, Indian government investigators found hidden bore holes where the operator of the United Marine Products fishmeal plant in Goa had been covertly disposing of toxic waste, thereby contaminating groundwater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Rays of hope are always welcome in this dark era, but there are at least three reasons to think the authors’ case—and the optimistic read on the future of American alliances writ large—has some holes.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The results provide some of the clearest evidence so far that supermassive black holes can influence galaxies far outside their central regions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

As issues mounted, patients began to escape—mostly through holes in the barbed-wire fence—and the nuns were forced to report them to authorities.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

There’s an alternate universe where Taylor Tomlinson is a young adult fantasy author holed up in a cabin miles from civilization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

With the light fading on the Bernardus course in the Netherlands, Jennifer Kupcho holed a nerve-shredding putt from the edge of the 18th green to snatch a point and leave the teams tied at 8-8.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

After the deaths of their parents, the aging bluebloods holed up in their stately Harlem rowhouse, once a picture of Gilded Age polish, and became a public curiosity.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

With nearly a 1:1 ratio of engineers to bankers, it’s a far cry from how many Wall Street firms position engineers, who are often holed up in New Jersey back offices, Eldarov said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Klaus was too tired and despondent to speak, and Violet was holed up in the inventing area of her mind, too busy planning to talk.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

Ciganda continued her fine form from Friday, holing two long-range putts on the front nine to put the European pairing in the box seat.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

To write, Rosales went off the grid, holing up in a cabin in the woods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

That same night, Israel got a tip from ordinary Iranians that the leader of the feared Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani, was holing up with his deputies in a tent in a wooded area in Tehran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Co-leader after 36 holes, Ko made bogey at the 12th and double bogey at the par-three 13th to stumble back before holing out from a bunker to birdie 14.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

But a newspaper reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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