holds out

present tense third-person singular of hold out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for holds out
Verb
  • Drew’s captures all of it in this love letter to a format that unexplicably survives, if only as a memory or souvenir.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Mikaela and Kieran escape and blow the place sky high … but Desmond survives.
    Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • That’s the kind of leadership that lasts.
    Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • While totality typically only lasts for a few minutes with a total solar eclipse, the moon during this week’s event will spend just over an hour in Earth’s shadow.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Sampson, now in his 36th season as a head coach, will surely take some time if Houston prevails during his third trip to the Final Four, including his second with the Cougars who also made it in 2021.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Other conservative states have also moved to cut Planned Parenthood out of the Medicaid program, and more would likely follow if South Carolina prevails.
    Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
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