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hold true
verb as in hold
Example Sentences
Harm reduction workers say each life lost to an overdose is preventable, which would hold true for the estimated 101,168 people who died from an overdose last year.
However, making these decisions is far from an exact science and there’s no way to guarantee that an indicator in past elections will hold true in future elections.
The factors that have prevented Hezbollah from opening a full-fledged second front for Israel since October still hold true.
In a world in flux, the cliches hold true that “one of our greatest strengths and most awful weaknesses is our adaptability. We’re constantly adjusting to changes in our environment. But it also means we’re constantly creating based on what is destroyed, constantly adding back to the world when things get taken away.”
But since hummingbirds live very different lives than owls, it didn’t seem likely this would hold true for them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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