withholding
Example Sentences
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She has 30 days from the notice date before the agency will start withholding 50% of her monthly benefit to recover the debt.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
As the chaos unfolds, Greengrass doesn’t pontificate on the morality of these events and, in fact, maintains a rather neutral stance on them for most of the film, withholding judgment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
From a modest family, he dreamt of becoming a computer engineer to "change his life", he told AFP, withholding his surname because "the fear is still there".
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
They presumably think they are being kind; they are withholding the one thing the writer needs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The deception was for his benefit—he was withholding information because patients might have refused to participate in his study if they’d known what he was injecting.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Vocabulary lists containing withholding
