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hold

[hohld] / hoʊld /










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“Indigenous practices knew how to hold people in trauma,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

U.S. officials say the hold on Iraq’s dollar shipments is temporary, but they didn’t say what specific steps Baghdad needs to take for the deliveries to resume.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

But investors should hold two scenarios in mind.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

The users got hold of Mythos by various means, including using access one of them had as a worker at a contractor for Anthropic, Bloomberg reported.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

When the shop and the workroom would not hold another bouquet, Betsie and I started carrying them upstairs to the two rooms above the shop.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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