Held and Supported

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Held adjective - Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination.

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Supported and held are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Supported" instead the word "Held" as an adverb or a noun or a verb.

Supported adjective - Held up or having the weight borne especially from below.

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Held and supported are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Held" instead the word "Supported" as an adverb or a noun or a verb.

This is supported by the widely held belief that Greyshirt is the long-thought deceased Franklin Lafayette.

Source: Shrouded in Myth
However, Barry never held it against Jay himself (and it helped that Jay supported Barry's lab-work).

Source: Series / The Flash (1990)
It held its own against the NES in United Kingdom and Portugal, did the same against Famiclones in South Korea, and was even more successful in Brazil, where it's still supported today.

Source: Germans Love David Hasselhoff / Video Games

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