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Capone was holed up in Florida at the time but is believed to have sent four assassins to take out Moran and his operatives.
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Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
The program won two Daytime Emmys, as well as a nomination for guest star Ed Asner, who plays a rundown Santa Claus holed up in a New York City cookie bar, drowning his sorrows in a plate of chocolate chip cookies and a frosty mug of milk.
—EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Suffering from writer’s block, under pressure, and out of place while holed up in a cheap L.A. hotel, Fink’s world starts to spiral.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2025
Trump spent the weeks after the Nov. 5 election holed up at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida assembling a team to help lead his next administration.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2024
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Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
The program won two Daytime Emmys, as well as a nomination for guest star Ed Asner, who plays a rundown Santa Claus holed up in a New York City cookie bar, drowning his sorrows in a plate of chocolate chip cookies and a frosty mug of milk.
—EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Suffering from writer’s block, under pressure, and out of place while holed up in a cheap L.A. hotel, Fink’s world starts to spiral.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2025
Trump spent the weeks after the Nov. 5 election holed up at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida assembling a team to help lead his next administration.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hole up
Verb
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In an interview with The Times of London Sunday, the Lord of the Rings actor urged famous LGBTQ people hiding their identity to come out of the closet.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
10 Mar. 2025
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While Timothy's family didn't think twice about his odd behavior — Victoria laughed and rolled her eyes, Saxon laughed, Lochlan cringed, and Piper hid her face in embarrassment — Isaacs spent a long time thinking about what has led his character to this rock bottom moment.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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Berlin is a city in a nearly hysterical hunt for secret Nazis believed to be lurking in the shadows.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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Who knows what evil lurks in the inner computational and mathematical structures of generative AI and LLMs?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Partly that's because any such black hole should lie at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, but its center is not well-defined.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
6 Mar. 2025
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The tasty dialogue, wherein most of the humor lies, indicates the difference between classes but also the history and expectations of the milieu in which Delia exists.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Hole up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole%20up. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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