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• But with a few tricks, a hacker can still get hold of the passwords.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• Or get hold of a completely specious list of the best this-or-that.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• As she was being choked, the woman managed to get hold of her cell phone and call 911.
  — cleveland, 13 June 2022
• How, without rudder or wing, to steer, To get hold of this floating grave.
  — Osip Mandelstam, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Sometimes his daughter gets hold of her parents’ phones and scrolls.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• But that doesn’t stop younger people from getting hold of vape products.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
• Diggs got hold of that football and handed it to his son, Aaiden, who was also seated in the front row.
  — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• That was the unknowable quality Napoleon couldn’t get hold of.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Or a superhero movie twisting time and space to keep you wondering whether the good guys will get hold of the gems before the bad guy wins (again).
  — Sharon Carty, Car and Driver, 7 July 2021
• Will Victor have need of it later and not have it, or will someone else get hold of it, or will Boyd’s life be saved thanks to having it?
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• Could a private citizen get hold of a genome and use it to bring an extinct animal back to life?
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
• Until the family can get hold of $1,400 in cash, his nephew’s next round of intestinal surgeries has to wait.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• Milpitas cleanup hitter Chloe Cabrera got hold of one leading off the top of the second and sent a high arcing drive over the fence in left field.
  — Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
• He was recently called in to work at 2 in the morning, leaving him scrambling to get hold of Aniya’s godmother to come watch her.
  — Sarah Kwon | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Here’s how to get hold of the enticing offer that can provide five follow-up bets on BetMGM’s dime.
  — Catena Media, oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2022
• As long as conniving CEOs don’t bribe their way into the parallel world to get hold of kaiju eggs . . .
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• Bennett got hold of a loose puck and beat Boston goaltender Jeremy Swayman to even the score at 2-2 in the final seconds of a power play.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 May 2024
• The parents contacted the school, but school officials were unable to get hold of the child's parents, Wasu said.
  — Jeremy Yurow, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022
• Local media outlets get hold of an email Lumumba sent to Reeves on March 3.
  — Sarah Haselhorst, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2021
• Or maybe DeepMind had somehow managed to get hold of a cache of unpublished data?
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
• For days, Christensen said, he’s been trying to get hold of city officials, hoping to get some of the debris removed before the next storm.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between the two, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2022
• Mou acknowledges the dangers of patients not being able to get hold of their prescribers and is looking to improve this.
  — CBS News, 22 June 2022
• On Sunday, after the shooting, Ms. Bowman was left wondering why the man may have been at large and able to get hold of a rifle, if he had been accused of the bomb threat.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• The study's findings, while unsurprising, highlight the risk people may take in efforts to get hold of the popular drugs.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2024
• After having nothing to eat for breakfast or lunch, the family managed to get hold of three tins of fava beans.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 27 Mar. 2024
• Rusnak spent Tuesday afternoon trying to get hold of anyone with the airlines to try to fix his problem.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2022
• In stairwells, people sat cross-legged on the floor as many anxiously typed on their cellphones, trying to get hold of friends and relatives.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• But getting hold of the shells to keep the systems firing has been a tall order, stockpiles across Europe drained and Ukraine's allies are struggling to produce more.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
• Apple doesn’t provide much information about what’s fixed in iOS 17.7 to give people time to update and prevent attackers getting hold of the details.
  — Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2025