Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hold (in)
Verb
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His wife, Avital, who was seven months pregnant at the time, hid in a safe room with their two daughters.—
Julia Frankel,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025 -
Dylan notices the slogan and examines the poster to find that Irv hid his drawing of the Exports Hall, with detailed instructions on how to get there written on the back, behind it.—
Megan McCluskey,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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Russia has to contend with a scenario where any shipping container in Ukraine – and there are tens of thousands - could potentially be concealing one of these systems.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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The fact this all plays out in real-time heightens that effect considerably, sweeping us up in the maelstrom of Hart’s bravado thanks to Hawke’s signature charm, even if it is undercut by something else barely concealed below the surface.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2025
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The intent is to foreground and amplify the story’s scandalous underpinnings, which, in all fairness, were loosely veiled to begin with.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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In downtown Los Angeles, which was veiled in smoke, local government officials convened for an update at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration.—
Emily Witt,
The New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2025
Verb
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This protects your data in transit and masks your IP address to keep your location private.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
9 Feb. 2025
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Tor browser Many people are familiar with VPNs, or virtual private networks, which act kind of like a tunnel between your device and the internet that can mask where your internet traffic is coming from.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN,
9 Feb. 2025
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Some of the most common animal extracts used in hair perfumes are musk and ambergris, which is a waxy substance that is secreted by sperm whales.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
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As part of a military parade in Pyongyang in 2023, the North Korean army showed off a variety of civilian box trucks and dump trucks with multiple-launch rocket tubes secreted inside them.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
Verb
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There is also no record of its business name on a database of online companies and its website is registered to a private domain in Holland, obscuring its true origin.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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Bouchard is the owner of a leisurely pace of play and that can sometimes obscure his contributions to winning games.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Last summer, an unsettling quiet cloaked the isolated Southwest Alaska community of King Cove as the town’s economic engine — a sprawling seafood processing plant — sat shuttered.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
13 Feb. 2025
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The group’s howls of protest could be heard last year outside the Dujiangyan Panda Base, the temporary home of two pandas that were sent to the US in a carefully orchestrated process cloaked in secrecy to avoid unscripted attention.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Hold (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hold%20%28in%29. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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