hold on
Example Sentences
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Don’t expect the stock to hold on to its recent gains in that sort of scenario.
From Barron's
It points to an economy that has failed to hold on to the momentum of the prior quarter, when output rebounded strongly with a recovery in exports and rise in government spending.
The reliance on longer car-loan terms illustrates how Americans are taking on, and holding on to, greater debt loads for longer periods.
Maybe there was a memo sent round the royal households of Europe, but many of this year's Christmas cards seem to have similar images of showing their families holding on to each other tenderly.
From BBC
The document implicitly acknowledges that data held on Horizon's servers at Fujitsu's headquarters could fail to match the transactions sub-postmasters had carried out at their branches.
From BBC
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