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Recent Examples of Synonyms for held (in)
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The defendants concealed the cash receipts from an accountant, who prepared their taxes, which led to the fraudulent omission of more than $17 million in gross sales from tax returns filed with the IRS.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025 -
The family travelled north from Central America for weeks, crossing rivers by night and riding concealed in smugglers’ trucks.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Or is there something murkier here, the leftovers of words or ideas secreted behind the picture frames or even in the very walls themselves?—
Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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Sweat secreted during exercise flows along the microfluidic structures and fills each chamber in order.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The former Macy’s store has remained as-is, with the portion of the building that opens to the project’s central spine masked by an exterior facade.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Maybe the 3-0 start masked the truth of this team, and Sunday was a heavy dose of reality.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
29 Sep. 2025
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Patel has nonetheless accused Wray of lying and argued that the former FBI director's handling of questions from lawmakers obscured key facts.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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The test event also demonstrated that the system can detect UAVs even if drones are partially obscured by buildings or clouds.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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Many times, the characters Jaglom played in his films were thinly veiled versions of himself.—
Chris Koseluk,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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In the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, the famous skies were veiled by a freak sandstorm from the Sahara.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
16 Sep. 2025
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How to Get Around Uber is the most trusted way around the city for visitors, with rides that are cheap and reliable, except for the airport, where the ride-share app is restricted.—
David Shortell,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
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Poland scrambled fighter jets and temporarily restricted parts of its airspace on Sunday following the Russian attack.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Britt’s wife, according to PEOPLE, stepped outside during the concert to record a video when her camera captured a boat shrouded in darkness in the water.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Great performances are shrouded by the sheer number of characters vying for our attention.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Held (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/held%20%28in%29. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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