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Secret Service agents stationed a few holes up from where Trump was playing golf noticed the muzzle of an AK-style rifle sticking through the shrubbery that lines the course, roughly 400 yards away.
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Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2024
Anderson also visited Assange regularly when he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London seeking asylum from 2012 to 2019.
—Emily Maddick, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
The fact that Beckham had her foot holed up in a medical boot last season did not lead her to tracksuit temptation.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
While multiple law enforcement agencies scanned the country for any sign of them, the couple had been holed up in Motel 41 for a week, eating pizza and plotting their next move.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2024
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Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2024
Anderson also visited Assange regularly when he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London seeking asylum from 2012 to 2019.
—Emily Maddick, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
The fact that Beckham had her foot holed up in a medical boot last season did not lead her to tracksuit temptation.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
While multiple law enforcement agencies scanned the country for any sign of them, the couple had been holed up in Motel 41 for a week, eating pizza and plotting their next move.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hole up
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The Super Bowl contender hiding in plain sight Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper signed a 13-year, $330 million contract in early 2019 in what was a record deal at the time.David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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But Bill Belichick has nothing in particular to offer when journalists ask about coaches hiding the effects of the disease.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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When set up side by side without a perfectionist producer lurking in the studio, however, both aesthetics relax, the lyrics freed of their intensity when placed in fresh, buoy-ant atmospheres.Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
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Roman Emperor Titus is thought to have orchestrated these mock sea battles, but certainly not with any sea creatures lurking beneath the surface.Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
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Trump lied incessantly and extravagantly in his bumptious bid for president, after racking up more than 30,500 false or misleading statements during four years in the White House, according to fact-checkers at the Washington Post.Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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The exclusive resort destination is part of Neom, an area that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman designated in 2017 as an emblem of the nation’s future and that lies at the northern tip of the Red Sea, facing the eastern coast of Egypt.Sofia Celeste, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Hole up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole%20up. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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