Held
Held adjective - Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination.
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- Once, their cities stretched across all of the lands now held by the Empire and beyond.
Source: LARP / Empire - Beyond, the park stretched away in illimitable vistas, broken with the graceful columned buildings that held up the great glass roof.
Source: Literature / The Cosmic Express
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