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Recent Examples of hole upNow teens were holing up in garages across America in an attempt to create their own versions of the Fab Four.—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025 Now on the run after escaping from prison, Manchester holes up in a local Toys R’ Us for several months.—Katherine Singh, Refinery29, 9 Sep. 2025 Away from a filthy Superdome and Convention Center where they had been holed up for days.—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025 McCartney is seen in this footage, holed up on a remote farm in Scotland with his wife Linda and their kids along with some sheep and horses.—Caleb Hammond, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hole up
Of course, the bags don’t actually hide anything; in fact, they are reserved specifically for, and definitively signal, the drinking of alcohol.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
The measure, which has failed to make it through the Legislature twice before, would require insurance companies to cover additional screenings, like an MRI, for women diagnosed with breast tissue that can hide cancer from traditional mammograms.
It was considered immoral to lie and the whole point of writing things down back then was to increase morality and improve society, so there really is no didactic history of forgery.
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JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
Ironically, the football game itself is just a backdrop, the real experience lies beyond the field.
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