hold everything
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A bit of tinkering – stripping the original’s heavy bassline, tossing in his lithe falsetto and a playful guitar to hold everything aloft – made the one-time throwaway into something immortal.
From Salon
Two thin glass plates hold everything needed to study nature's invisible glue.
From Science Daily
That the word would expand to hold everything my system was processing.
From Literature
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There’s a sense of containment to him, like he’s trying to hold everything inside.
From New York Times
“Which is that the image is not a setting — it has to hold everything the novel is about. So that’s how I work with the image. I don’t work with symbols. No ideas but in things. They are physical objects.”
From Los Angeles Times
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