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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
• 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
• 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
• 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• Or maybe DeepMind had somehow managed to get hold of a cache of unpublished data?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
• 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
• So many of the details of the tragedy were familiar: a young man got hold of a gun and left a path of devastation and terror in the hallways and classrooms of an American school.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• When the men learn that the car has already gone, their boss (Colman Domingo) orders them to go after Marian and Jamie, get hold of the cargo, and make the delivery.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
• The polar bears were wonderful, ducking each other in the water by getting hold of each other’s ears, jumping in and pulling down.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• Apple doesn’t give much detail about what’s fixed in iOS 16.3.1, to give enough time for people to update before more attackers can get hold of the details.
  — Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• What impact this has on how likely those without an authorized dealer on speed-dial are to get hold of a piece remains to be seen.
  — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
• Jefferson’s words are stirring on their own, but when a certain kind of orator gets hold of them, the effect can feel like thunder, or the Spirit.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2024
• The dynamic—known as backwardation—suggests market players are scrapping to get hold of crude and has prevailed for much of the past two years.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024