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as in owner
one who has a legal or rightful claim to ownership the holders of the land gave us permission to camp on it

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Recent Examples of holder The loss to Markey should have ended his political career, but there are always Kennedy coat holders in the media who will look to help him back up. Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 31 July 2025 This crypto cycle’s story is not one of Bitcoin holders rotating into altcoins, but of bitcoin ETF buyers buying into bitcoin treasury firms. Edan Yago, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025 Few gave Chelsea a chance of beating Champions League holders PSG in the final. Simon Johnson, New York Times, 31 July 2025 Michigan's Adventure is offering season pass holders a ticket to Cedar Point, an amusement park in Ohio. Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for holder
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Noun
  • The closure comes shortly after the same owner closed The Champagnery, another Louisville restaurant.
    Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2025
  • The store owner estimates the closure for repairs will last two to three months, impacting back-to-school sales.
    Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • Cloud native architecture, in turn, requires new kinds of Java instruments, relying heavily on microservices, small containers, GraalVM native images and other modern tools, all of which are designed to improve Java's performance in the cloud.
    Alexander Belokrylov, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • On top of that, an ongoing railway worker shortage continues to lengthen dwell times for containers waiting at the port.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The proprietor was the cashier, known to all of us.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 July 2025
  • Louise Brealey has also been cast as flying instructor and Quidditch coach Rolanda Hooch, while Anton Lesser will play wand proprietor Garrick Ollivander.
    EW.com, EW.com, 14 July 2025

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“Holder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/holder. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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