TAKING HOLD Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

taking hold

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present participle of take hold

as in working

to produce a desired effect It was clear in the students' essays that her lessons had taken hold.

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Recent Examples of taking hold The parallel society Phillips warned about may already be taking hold. — Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 Starbucks' turnaround gains traction with consumers New consumer data offered encouraging evidence that the Starbucks turnaround is, indeed, taking hold. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 The story of the fourth record is of of the Attractions sort of taking hold of those songs and us just going berserk within six months. — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 This cycle is taking hold just as Brazilian resources, exports, and investments are becoming more valuable to the rest of the world, which is the moment when the country’s leverage should be growing rather than declining. — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026 Few are measuring whether that vision is actually taking hold. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026 That effect is taking hold in prestige, too, with Circana data showing e-commerce is the biggest channel for prestige skin care and accounts for nearly half of total prestige beauty sales Stateside. — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026 The pallid grayness of Mike Eley’s cinematography is probably supposed to mimic the finality of HIV/AIDS taking hold, but there’s no passion aesthetically to counterbalance what becomes absolute misery onscreen to watch. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026 In a note published on Monday, the global macroeconomic research firm highlighted how aviation data suggests a revival is taking hold, particularly in intra-GCC travel. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for taking hold

taking effect

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More than 20 states now have comprehensive consumer privacy laws in effect or taking effect by 2026, according to legislative trackers from MultiState and the IAPP.

— Abhik Biswas, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Wells Fargo upgrades Sweetgreen to overweight from equal weight Wells said the transformation for Sweetgreen is taking effect.

— Michael Bloom, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026