as in to limit
to set bounds or an upper limit for
efforts to hold down taxes keep running up against the legislature's ingrained unwillingness to cut spending
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as in fastener
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Samuel Oakford, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
Finally, hold down the outer panels of each to pair a second device.
—PCMAG, 15 July 2024
IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023
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Shortly afterward, a third deputy held down lower on his body, then a fourth pushed on his legs.
—Samuel Oakford, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
Finally, hold down the outer panels of each to pair a second device.
—PCMAG, 15 July 2024
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Then, presuming everything checks out, two hold-down mechanisms open and the little rover falls about a meter, in the low lunar gravity, to the ground below.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023
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