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Recent Examples of Synonyms for held (in)
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Then the four co-owners emerge from the wine shop, waving wine bottles concealed in brown paper bags.
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These rolling carts can add organization to any room in your home, and these rich-looking cabinets keep items contained and concealed.
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Or, to put it in terms the Patriots understood, roughly 200,000 musket balls of metal were secreted away.
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Queens are raised eating royal jelly secreted from the glands of worker bees and scientists have long believed diet was the main key to making a monarch.
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The team’s issues in the scoring area during real time were masked by scoring two goals off corner kicks.
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Guitarist Johnny Graham said the public image masked a very different reality.
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Wernicke says that's wrong—and that the misattribution has obscured something important.
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The documents in question include eight emails with either the sender or recipient blacked out, a draft indictment of Epstein with the names of potential co-conspirators obscured and a 2019 email that mentions several co-conspirators whose names were redacted.
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Okay, good veiled Alexa/Siri reference.
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Though for many voters the initiative’s measures are veiled in the hypothetical, pegged to demographic projections, refugees, such as the residents of La Maison, and others within the asylum system will feel its effects in the near term.
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Utah restricted fireworks and declared a state of emergency Friday ahead of July Fourth celebrations as the United States' largest wildfire expanded its reach across more tinder-dry forest, as crews rush to fight new blazes in the arid state.
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Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix, Google noted in its blog.
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In states shrouded by Jim Crow laws, Black Americans were advised where and where not to drive.
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But the part of the building once covered with letters spelling the president’s name is now shrouded in a tarp.
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“Held (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/held%20%28in%29. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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