withholding

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You can look at your latest pay stub and see your year-to-date tax withholding and your year-to-date retirement contributions, and think about whether switching to post-tax contributions would make a difference.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

But the CPS's lawyer said withholding the identities was a "time-limited decision" until "proceedings commence substantively" in the UK.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026

“We are not withholding any funds appropriated to, or available to, State,” they said.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2026

The legal ban against withholding recess as punishment has generated friction in California.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 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