hold at bay
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But we may be reminded in these last episodes arriving on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s that there is no going home again when it comes to certain shows, and the unstoppable force none of us can hold at bay forever is the clock.
From Salon
Nor could it hold at bay the tweet screenshots and TikTok reuploads that thundered its way.
From Slate
POKROVSK, Ukraine — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country’s army is facing “a really difficult situation” in eastern regions where troops are battling to hold at bay an intense Russian push along parts of the front line.
From Seattle Times
He has so far managed to hold at bay the archconservatives unhappy with the bipartisan spending deals he has struck to keep the government open.
From New York Times
The government now appears to be seriously evaluating the need to leave thousands of gallons of leftover waste buried forever in Hanford’s shallow underground tanks, according to some of those familiar with the negotiations, and protect some of the waste not in impenetrable glass, but in a concrete grout casing that would almost certainly decay thousands of years before the toxic materials that it is designed to hold at bay.
From New York Times
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