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View synonyms for hold together

hold together

verb

  1. to cohere or remain or cause to cohere or remain in one piece

    your old coat holds together very well

  2. to stay or cause to stay united

    the children held the family together

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Mr Welby has undoubtedly seen it as a big part of his job to hold together very different factions within the Church of England and, even more difficult, in the wider global Church, the Anglican Communion of 85 million people.

From BBC

“It’s like a military campaign to write the songs to get them in shape to figure out how you want the whole thing to hold together,” Doe says.

At the outset, he’s attempting to manage a period of significant stress, struggling to hold together his family, including his troubled daughter and long-suffering wife.

It also depends on whether his genuinely unique strategy of holding on to techno-lefty ideals while building bridges with disaffected voters and breaking bread with unexpected allies can hold together, to make modern-day liberalism appealing to those who are increasingly rejecting the very concept.

From Slate

In writing about the ways folks hold together during difficult times, Trías untangles the myths and realities of resilience.

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