batten
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It may not even slow rates of saving at all, since amid slowing economic growth and mounting pessimism, households have plenty of other reasons to batten down their financial hatches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
If the world’s most valuable company disappoints the market, investors really will need to batten down the hatches.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
“If it’s a slower season, we batten the hatches and weather the storm,” Allen told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2025
When they are struggling, they batten down the hatches and go all 'Dogs of War'.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
That no one could have understood that they would be the target of monthly hurricanes pinballing up the Mississippi Alley, gunning for anything that didn’t have the sense to batten down, float, or go underground.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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