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"ref": "2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "It worked to perfection. Ferrari's decision not to stop on the next lap simply made life easier, especially when Alonso was held up by Marussia's Charles Pic during that period - for which the Frenchman earned a drive-through penalty.",
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"ref": "1962 June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, in Modern Railways, page 405:",
"text": "In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.",
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"ref": "1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:",
"text": "Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.",
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"text": "hold up to scrutiny",
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"ref": "2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 34:",
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to rob at gunpoint",
"word": "prăda"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "to support",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "kannatella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "nostaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "to lift",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "kohottaa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "sollevare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "alzare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pripodnimatʹ",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "приподнимать"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "yacchati",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "यच्छति"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "sostener"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "stödja"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to support or lift",
"word": "stötta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement",
"word": "täyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement",
"word": "noudattaa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement",
"word": "mantenere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement",
"word": "attenersi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement",
"word": "mantener"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement",
"word": "cumplir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"word": "kestää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"word": "läpäistä"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"word": "sostenere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"word": "fronteggiare"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"word": "înfrunta (cu curaj)"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"word": "stăvili"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyderživatʹ",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "выдерживать"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"word": "klara"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to withstand; to stand up to; to survive",
"word": "tåla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground",
"word": "pitää pintansa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground",
"word": "pysyä mukana"
}
],
"word": "hold up"
}
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