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[hohld] / hoʊld /










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The company didn’t hold back on the earnings call.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

The co-founders, meanwhile, will hold 50.1 percent of shareholder voting power through a single special share, leaving investors who buy on the market little say over the company's direction.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

We are there to bear witness, and we are there to hold power to account.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

An hour later, he couldn’t walk, talk or hold himself up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

It’s a feeling I want to hold on to forever, and I forget that I’m just regular me, and I let myself be who I think he wants me to be.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Jida Nabulsi also holds conservative values, but doesn’t identify herself as either a Democrat or a Republican.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

Shell holds a 40% stake in LNG Canada and Mitsubishi owns a 15% interest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

He holds the WBO and WBA cruiserweight titles and will fight Poland's Michal Cieslak for the WBC belt on 5 December.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

This would mark the largest one-day drop since at least 1980 if it holds through the close.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Then she holds my eyes with hers and adds, ‘I want to keep it that way. You hear me? This is just for you and me.’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

On Monday, both companies held a call with shareholders to make the case that the deal is a good one.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

The BOK held its benchmark interest rate steady at 3.00% last month after raising it at consecutive meetings in July and August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Stewart smudged her face with gray makeup, cut a few rips in her least-loved jeans, sliced up a gleaming white cardigan and held up a clipboard that read, “I Am Hungry Help Me!!”

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Dan Harrison announced on Monday that he would be stepping down from the role he has held since May 2025.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Father held the baby close, his white beard brushed its cheek, looking into the little face with eyes as blue and innocent as the baby’s own.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Rather should I take comfort in that He, Who hath power over all, is holden as my pledge.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason

Looking back over the Divine life and deeds of Jesus, St Peter said: “It was not possible that He should be holden of death.”

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay

Also that it was not here the custom, and that I should be dishonoured, and holden for a fool and light.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

On the summit, which commands a very extensive prospect, a fair is annually holden.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

And this doth agree with our ancient books, where it is holden that a man may have divers names at divers times, but not divers christian names.”

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley

Meanwhile, companies are holding off plans to raise billions of dollars in higher-yield debt sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Across the country, nonpartisan groups are holding last-minute voting events, encouraging people to fill out their ballots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Are you bearing witness and are you holding power to account?

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Earlier this year, the new Syrian authorities that came to power after the fall of Bashar al-Assad took over the prisons holding the jihadists.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

I’m outside, too, carried out by the Hecht’s throng, holding wrapped-paper parcels in my arms that I’m vaguely aware I didn’t pay for.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse


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