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Recent Examples of hole up
Other students hid in locked classrooms, ran outside or holed up in homes in the neighborhoods that bordered the school.
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Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
Miraculously, the popular Grammy-winning DJ and musician holed up with his laptop computer and a MIDI controller in New Zealand to conjure up these nerve-jangling tracks to match up with and enhance his Lovecraftian horrors on a hostile remote exoplanet.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
When officers arrived, Martinez holed up inside the home and held police at bay until he was coaxed into surrendering.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
They had been holed up in French diplomatic premises in Iran since their release from prison in November.
—Sarah Dean, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
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Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
Miraculously, the popular Grammy-winning DJ and musician holed up with his laptop computer and a MIDI controller in New Zealand to conjure up these nerve-jangling tracks to match up with and enhance his Lovecraftian horrors on a hostile remote exoplanet.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
When officers arrived, Martinez holed up inside the home and held police at bay until he was coaxed into surrendering.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
They had been holed up in French diplomatic premises in Iran since their release from prison in November.
—Sarah Dean, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hole up
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Without sofas, curtains, or rugs to soften things, your color palette has nowhere to hide.—
Natasha Bazika,
Martha Stewart,
9 May 2026
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Many fish live, hide and eat the small shrimp and crabs that are within the seaweed, which made her snorkeling adventure more exciting.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2026
Verb
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The Wolves rushed shots in and around the paint all night because Wembanyama was always lurking.—
Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
9 May 2026
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This is a moving, gripping exploration of a complex family dynamic with something lurking beneath the surface.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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The surface also lies beneath 90 bars of pressure, almost 100 times greater than that of sea level on Earth, from a smothering sky filled with near-pure carbon dioxide and laced with corrosive sulfuric acid rain.—
Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
10 May 2026
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The truth likely lies between official denial and worst-case projections.—
Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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“Hole up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole%20up. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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