holding pattern
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The Federal Reserve is in a holding pattern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The RFU has instead just expanded a holding pattern.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and his seemingly supernatural competence at both city management and marketing, has laid a blueprint for kitchen-table progressives looking to bust out of the Trump-era holding pattern.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Many of the software startups that launched in the early 2010s, Medina said, aren’t growing fast enough to elicit any real interest from public-market investors, putting them in a holding pattern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But the room, although dim, isn’t dark enough, so I switch my mind into the holding pattern that passes for attention.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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