held down

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A stealthier and less obvious plan would be financial repression, in which interest rates are held down below the rate of nominal growth of the economy, which consists of real growth plus inflation.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

The friends keep it low-tech, with an alert system consisting of fishing lines attached to plastic foam and held down by weights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The move in silver is “less of a one-off spike and more of a long overdue repricing of an asset that had been held down for more than a decade,” Baecker said.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

"If I use a public toilet and the tap has to be held down, that impacts my ability, not because I can't do it, but because the designer hasn't thought about me."

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

He held down his head so that she could reach, and she, stretching up backward with a white arm, twisted his forelock round her finger.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White