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
Center Deandre Ayton held down a short-handed big man rotation with 23 points and 10 rebounds.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 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
The king's father looked around, aghast, but only the lifeless stone Bauxi, held down by the monument as if pinned by a needle, remained.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
