holed up
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He took swimming and tennis lessons at his local YMCA, but more importantly, he holed up in its cozy reading nook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The two men spent 80 consecutive hours holed up and writing “on printer sheets, on tissues, on toilet paper,” according to Mr. St. George.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
The senate building has been locked down since the shots, and senators are holed up inside.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
The mamas worried about their children holed up with their husbands back in the capital.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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