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• The rest, 52%, say the promise used to hold true but no longer does, up 9 points.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
• If trends hold true, Ohio could be on the frontline once again.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
• But that doesn’t hold true for all segments, Krantz says.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• That high will hold true for the first several days of the workweek.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 17 July 2021
• So wouldn’t that hold true for your running shoe size too?
  — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 12 Sep. 2023
• If Bass was not a criminal, the same should hold true for her client.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• In some set-ups, Cope’s Rule does indeed appear to hold true.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
• The same would hold true for determining third and fourth place.
  — Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2022
• If those estimates hold true, this would be one of the busiest spring break ever.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
• Does the pea-sized application rule that applies to the face also hold true for the body?
  — Elise Tabin, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
• Auburn was able to generate a lot of pressure against UMass’ pass, but the same didn’t hold true for the running game.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• There are too many far left activists in the court for that expectation to hold true.
  — Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review, 19 Nov. 2023
• On the ground in the Udhampur constituency, that appears to hold true.
  — Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
• The same will hold true for hospitals, restaurants, schools, and other big food users in 2024.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2021
• Swift fans know that a track 5 on one of her own albums holds a special place; does the same hold true for Abrams, fans may wonder?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 June 2024
• Two-thirds believe the American Dream doesn’t hold true.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• That will likely hold true this year, when four out of the five tracks are also ROTY nominees.
  — Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
• Some of these findings hold true even after just one session.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, TIME, 31 July 2024
• Whether the same things hold true for VO2 max in women is less clear, because there simply isn’t as much data on them.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 July 2024
• The science isn’t settled, and not all experts are convinced those patterns will hold true in the future.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 June 2024
• If patterns from last year hold true, this will be reduced to 3-4 percent under the new guidance.
  — Edward Conroy, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• And even though so many of them wanted to interpret Star Wars in new ways, those core elements hold true.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 4 May 2023
• Should this hold true for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, viewers can start queueing the movie by early August 2023.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2023
• Dogs process familiar human words on the right side of the brain, according to a 2016 study published in Science, but the same concept might still hold true.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 July 2023
• Taylor says the same should hold true for other predators that hunt prey in large flocks or shoals or murmurations.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2022
• Holter and Hohl both wholeheartedly believe in the restaurant’s ability to hold true to that.
  — Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Whatever the studio machinations behind the scenes, one fact tends to hold true: Good movies tend to do better at the box office than bad ones.
  — Time, 11 July 2023
• Ways of relating and presumptions that hold true on Twitter now seem true in real life.
  — WIRED, 2 Dec. 2022
• Among other things, this means that much of their net worth is tied to the value of their public personas in ways that do not hold true for other billionaires.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• Though this doesn’t hold true everywhere, and local ecology plays a role.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024