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hold water
verb as in cohere
verb as in prove out
verb as in wash
Strongest match
Example Sentences
Trump’s argument for popular nullification doesn’t hold water in the first place.
Higher temperatures enhance the atmosphere’s capacity to hold water vapor, increasing the quantities of moisture evaporating off the landscape.
That stopped holding water once Trump came into office and declared certain types of Americans to be unequal – those pesky “enemies from within” — and some to be more equal than others.
Officials are hoping to eradicate local reservoirs of dengue by reducing mosquito populations and eliminating possible breeding sites, namely containers that hold water.
He also said he wasn’t convinced the attempted murder charge would “hold water at the end of the day.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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