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Recent Examples of hole up
Other students hid in locked classrooms, ran outside or holed up in homes in the neighborhoods that bordered the school.
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Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
Miraculously, the popular Grammy-winning DJ and musician holed up with his laptop computer and a MIDI controller in New Zealand to conjure up these nerve-jangling tracks to match up with and enhance his Lovecraftian horrors on a hostile remote exoplanet.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
When officers arrived, Martinez holed up inside the home and held police at bay until he was coaxed into surrendering.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
They had been holed up in French diplomatic premises in Iran since their release from prison in November.
—Sarah Dean, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
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Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
Miraculously, the popular Grammy-winning DJ and musician holed up with his laptop computer and a MIDI controller in New Zealand to conjure up these nerve-jangling tracks to match up with and enhance his Lovecraftian horrors on a hostile remote exoplanet.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
When officers arrived, Martinez holed up inside the home and held police at bay until he was coaxed into surrendering.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
They had been holed up in French diplomatic premises in Iran since their release from prison in November.
—Sarah Dean, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hole up
Verb
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That day, Riley had been editing a sequence in which Corvette sneaks into a San Francisco condo owned by Christie, her fashion idol, by hiding inside a coffee delivery cart.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Bugs also tend to hide inside packaging, seams, or even the food itself.—
Kate Van Pelt,
The Spruce,
15 May 2026
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There is obviously a larger lesson lurking here, one about needing to trick out courses to combat unending progress, but no one has any time for that.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
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There’s a set of boxing gloves lurking in that NPR tote bag.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
16 May 2026
Verb
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The connection between fans and the team has broken, and a huge summer lies ahead if Wolves are to repair it.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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But the fault lies more with the citizenry than with scholarship.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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“Hole up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole%20up. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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