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Congress will hold a session on the motion Thursday morning, he said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
It is currently unclear as to what responsibilities Nadal would hold on the club's board.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The preliminary voting results suggest Bergeron’s firm, DGB Investment, will hold a 3-2 majority on the Ethan Allen board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
A second count still seeks to hold Rinderknecht responsible for both that blaze and the Palisades fire, which erupted six days later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Rue and I exchange a nervous glance and hold each other’s hand.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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“I don’t call races. But if that expectation holds true, then there is no reason to expect that Raman is going to do anything but gain votes from here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
And there lies the crux of the problem - the lack of clarity has fuelled speculation about what the future holds.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
"The Holy Father holds Zana dear," Edinson Farfan, the pope's successor as bishop of the city of Chiclayo near Zana, told AFP during a visit to inspect the town's preparations.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Fenty Beauty teamed up with device accessory brand Casetify on a phone case that also holds lip gloss and blotting powder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
He holds her close and kisses her cheek.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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A court will decide on Thursday whether he should be freed or held in custody pending trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Such lobbying was held up as evidence of Wong calling for sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
His core, however, held, with white voters without college degrees and white evangelicals remaining firmly Republican.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
The elections, held halfway through a president's four-year term, decide who represents Americans in Congress, as well as in thousands of state and local offices.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
In the evenings we held a clandestine prayer meeting for as many as could crowd around our bunk.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The tenour whereof thus followeth: In the Parliament holden at Edinburgh, the 20th day of December.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
This, were I not holden by penury unjustly, would be possible.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
There are few whose eyes are now holden as they used to be, as to the surpassing place in the history of culture of the last three centuries of the Middle Ages.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
At a Superior Court of law holden for Bath county at the court house on the 5th day of September, 1822.
They were also called the Westphalian tribunals, as they could only be holden in the Red Land, or Westphalia, and only Westphalians were amenable to their jurisdiction.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
It’s slated to be the largest reservoir built in California since the completion of New Melones Dam on the Stanislaus River in 1979, holding up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Lawyers for Ammori told the court that thousands of elderly people, many veterans of other radical causes, had been arrested for holding up signs supportive of the group since its proscription.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Higher interest rates raise the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets such as gold, reducing their appeal to investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Magnetism is familiar from everyday experiences, whether it is a refrigerator magnet holding up a photograph or a compass aligning with Earth's magnetic field.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Mutti was at the water’s edge, screaming and crying, and Peter was there beside her, holding her back, his arms fast around her.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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