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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
withhold .
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Examples
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"But that word withholds Him no longer; for now their eyes are waiting for the Lord their God, until that He have mercy upon them: their souls are watching for Him more than they that watch for the morning."
The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson
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One the one hand, he withholds the kid's wages; on the other, that means the kid can't lose them or get robbed or spend them, etc.
intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated intertribal 2010
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There is still the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which withholds over 1,000 rights and responsibilities from LGBT couples who do marry in a state that allows them to wed.
Tanene Allison: On Becoming Less of an Outlaw Tanene Allison 2011
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There is still the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which withholds over 1,000 rights and responsibilities from LGBT couples who do marry in a state that allows them to wed.
Tanene Allison: On Becoming Less of an Outlaw Tanene Allison 2011
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If God withholds His hand and you drop me, the dogs and outfit are yours.
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The agency deliberately withholds basic information from the media and researchers, and its top officials routinely decline requests for interviews [...]
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons The Media Consortium 2010
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If Obama withholds funding, the clamor of anti-semitism will be deafening.
Think Progress » Flashback: Bush Also Threatened To Withhold Loan Guarantees From Israel 2010
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Understandably, the ghost of Tuskegee haunts our nation's black population and many harbor suspicions that the medical establishment withholds desirable treatments from black people.
Barbara Coombs Lee: Once Again, Race Matters-But How? Barbara Coombs Lee 2010
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The agency deliberately withholds basic information from the media and researchers, and its top officials routinely decline requests for interviews [...]
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons The Media Consortium 2010
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Understandably, the ghost of Tuskegee haunts our nation's black population and many harbor suspicions that the medical establishment withholds desirable treatments from black people.
Barbara Coombs Lee: Once Again, Race Matters-But How? Barbara Coombs Lee 2010
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