holds (in)

present tense third-person singular of hold (in)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for holds (in)
Verb
  • That average fee, however, masks a wide variation.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The humor barely masks his fear.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Safari now hides all data that third-party snoopers can use to detect your digital fingerprint.
    Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But outside of the ring, Christy hides and represses her lesbianism and winds up marrying her trainer Jim Martin (Ben Foster), who manipulates and physically abuses her.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Guests arrive via a winding, jungle-like path that conceals the building from view until the final turn, when the view suddenly opens to a giant round portico, four stories high and 120 feet across that appears to float despite its 3,000-ton weight.
    Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Find those iconic horses emblazoned in silver onto the oakwood base of their Dry Air Diffuser, which conceals a discrete fan and ventilation system.
    Austa Somvichian-Clausen, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • All that cash just obscures the dysfunction Obamacare has let loose in our health insurance market.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Your readers deserve better than inflammatory rhetoric that obscures real human suffering masquerading as journalism.
    Letters to the Editor, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The new Crystalium edition cloaks that signature architecture in a black DLC case while layering in high craft.
    Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But the situation isn’t without innuendo — and a little drama — from Castellanos, who cloaks very little when asked a question from the media.
    Anthony Stitt, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Holds (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/holds%20%28in%29. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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