Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hold (in)
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The ancient springhead, natural waterpark, and retro roadside attraction has more than a few secrets hidden in its eelgrass.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
22 Mar. 2025 -
Applied to animation, AI tools are a little better hidden and do seem to be a more natural extension of traditional CGI, itself an advancement of 2D animation.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
21 Mar. 2025
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The film doesn’t conceal the role that informal migrant labor plays in European agriculture and the toll that its informality takes on the migrants.—
Bartolomeo Sala,
The Dial,
27 Mar. 2025
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Once concealed structural beams have been exposed, allowing the geometry of the honeycombed ceilings and the pillars to speak honestly, inviting visitors to better understand the integrity of Pereira’s original design.—
Jennifer Lee,
Forbes,
26 Mar. 2025
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The indictment says the transactions sometimes involved cryptocurrency, which veiled the source of the money and identities of those involved.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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When the world is falling apart, all the illogical perceptions fall away, leaving only what matters standing, and that which matters is no longer veiled by those perceptions.—
Cathrine Todd,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Many are masked, at least three are carrying bats or sticks, and one is armed with an assault rifle.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Mar. 2025
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As for the buyer, their identity was also masked by an LLC, in this case 1388 Group Inc., which lists an address in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and is owned by Huisha Zhen.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
28 Mar. 2025
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Daniele Bianchi, an assistant professor in UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, has been studying what causes this normally benign plankton species to start secreting lethal toxins.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The love letter was secreted in cardboard stuffing inside the new pair of argyle socks, which a Manhattan Supreme Court officer passed on to Mangione from his defense team ahead of his Feb. 21 court appearance.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Baseball’s celebration of that day often obscures the fact that MLB hasn’t been African American friendly in decades.—
Terence Moore,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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As recalls have been announced, Cybertruck sales have seemingly slumped, as Tesla obscured the true figures by lumping numbers in with sales of Model X and Model S, MotorTrend reported.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Mar. 2025
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Designed to win over moderates and Northerners, the manifesto was cloaked in a reading of the U.S. Constitution that invoked Civil War-era theories of states’ rights.—
Essence,
Essence,
22 Mar. 2025
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Yesterday’s pangrams were cloaked, deadlock and deadlocked.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Hold (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hold%20%28in%29. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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