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• But with a few tricks, a hacker can still get hold of the passwords.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• Or get hold of a completely specious list of the best this-or-that.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• As she was being choked, the woman managed to get hold of her cell phone and call 911.
  — cleveland, 13 June 2022
• How, without rudder or wing, to steer, To get hold of this floating grave.
  — Osip Mandelstam, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Sometimes his daughter gets hold of her parents’ phones and scrolls.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Diggs got hold of that football and handed it to his son, Aaiden, who was also seated in the front row.
  — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• That was the unknowable quality Napoleon couldn’t get hold of.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Or a superhero movie twisting time and space to keep you wondering whether the good guys will get hold of the gems before the bad guy wins (again).
  — Sharon Carty, Car and Driver, 7 July 2021
• Until the family can get hold of $1,400 in cash, his nephew’s next round of intestinal surgeries has to wait.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• He was recently called in to work at 2 in the morning, leaving him scrambling to get hold of Aniya’s godmother to come watch her.
  — Sarah Kwon | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Here’s how to get hold of the enticing offer that can provide five follow-up bets on BetMGM’s dime.
  — Catena Media, oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2022
• As long as conniving CEOs don’t bribe their way into the parallel world to get hold of kaiju eggs . . .
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• The parents contacted the school, but school officials were unable to get hold of the child's parents, Wasu said.
  — Jeremy Yurow, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022
• Local media outlets get hold of an email Lumumba sent to Reeves on March 3.
  — Sarah Haselhorst, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2021
• Or maybe DeepMind had somehow managed to get hold of a cache of unpublished data?
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
• For days, Christensen said, he’s been trying to get hold of city officials, hoping to get some of the debris removed before the next storm.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between the two, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2022
• Mou acknowledges the dangers of patients not being able to get hold of their prescribers and is looking to improve this.
  — CBS News, 22 June 2022
• On Sunday, after the shooting, Ms. Bowman was left wondering why the man may have been at large and able to get hold of a rifle, if he had been accused of the bomb threat.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• Rusnak spent Tuesday afternoon trying to get hold of anyone with the airlines to try to fix his problem.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2022
• In stairwells, people sat cross-legged on the floor as many anxiously typed on their cellphones, trying to get hold of friends and relatives.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• The polar bears were wonderful, ducking each other in the water by getting hold of each other’s ears, jumping in and pulling down.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• Apple doesn’t give much detail about what’s fixed in iOS 16.3.1, to give enough time for people to update before more attackers can get hold of the details.
  — Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• What impact this has on how likely those without an authorized dealer on speed-dial are to get hold of a piece remains to be seen.
  — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
• The dynamic—known as backwardation—suggests market players are scrapping to get hold of crude and has prevailed for much of the past two years.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• When ISPs sell your data, or companies get hold of it, your search history and preferences can be used to create these ads.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 17 Sep. 2020
• But practically speaking, Stenehjem noted that not everybody is going to to be able to get hold of an N95.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Jan. 2022
• When Parks finally does get hold of the journals, the reveal is anticlimactic.
  — Charley Locke, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• The team is challenging the production order, and hoping to get hold of an affidavit from police that set out their reasons for the production order to the court.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
• When tabloids get hold of a photo of a fight between them, a major damage control plan from both sides of the pond gets underway to display a fake friendship between the two famous young men.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024