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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottled (up)
held back
Verb
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Another clip showed Brown jawing toward Sirianni and being held back by his teammates.—
Tom Ignudo,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026 -
And to me, that was the most significant question because that’s what held back the two quarterbacks who came before him, Mitch Trubisky and Justin Fields.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Bottled (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottled%20%28up%29. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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