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hold true

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  1. see under hold good.


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For industry insiders, "Sinners" may have the upper hand with SAG-AFTRA, which represents more than 160,000 members -- but that may not hold true in two weeks for the Academy Awards.

From Barron's

If the tech firms hold true to these pledges, the benefits will flow through to consumers.

From Barron's

Kline argues that O’Leary’s take on the altcoin market is too simplistic, saying that while some altcoins are indeed “lower quality,” others hold true promise in terms of their utility value — meaning in their use for different types of financial transactions.

From MarketWatch

“They’re more likely than in previous decades to be receiving employer-provided benefits such as pension plans and health insurance. The same does not hold true for younger workers, whose access to these employer-provided benefits has decreased in recent decades.”

From MarketWatch

While these principles hold true in everyday situations, problems arise when scientists try to apply them to extremely small systems governed by quantum physics.

From Science Daily