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Recent Examples of hole up
LaSota; Zajko, who was wanted for allegedly arming Maland’s murderers; and Daniel Blank, a third Zizian, were discovered holed up in box trucks, dressed in all black and heavily armed.
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Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
The setup for Black Phone 2 is that Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber is out there in the real world, not holed up in some neighborhood house in 1970s suburbia.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
Friends are holed up in bars near downtown, watching NFL games and sharing laughs over brunch plates.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
One Battle follows another ex-revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio), now holed up outside a fictional Northern California town and almost perpetually drunk or high, but otherwise doting on his teenage daughter (newcomer Chase Infiniti).
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
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Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
The setup for Black Phone 2 is that Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber is out there in the real world, not holed up in some neighborhood house in 1970s suburbia.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
Friends are holed up in bars near downtown, watching NFL games and sharing laughs over brunch plates.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
One Battle follows another ex-revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio), now holed up outside a fictional Northern California town and almost perpetually drunk or high, but otherwise doting on his teenage daughter (newcomer Chase Infiniti).
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hole up
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This mismatch between perception and reality has real consequences, fueling the notion that higher education as a whole is elitist and out of touch, hiding the work of the colleges that educate millions of working- and middle-class families.—
Yolanda Watson Spiva,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Then keep scrolling to shop more of the best pieces hiding in Pottery Barn’s outlet now.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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Analysts say the new submarine appears to be based off the Russian Borei class of SSBNs, able to lurk deep under the surface without being detected.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Nobody in Toronto has been obsessing about hockey for weeks now, so this is as close as the Leafs will ever come to being able to lurk in the background.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Johanna Harwood stepped into the frame of the bedroom door, where Anna Petrov lay dead on the parquet beside the body of a guard.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
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In their game-deciding drives, the kind of two-minute drills franchise players produce, lies experience.—
Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Hole up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole%20up. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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