Hold
Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.
Lost it
Both terms in one sentence
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The type chart has been revised and Steel has lost it's resistance to Ghost and Dark, so it may not be able to hold off their assaults as well as it did in the past.
Source: Video Game / Pokémon X and Y - Even Kerowyn, who refuses to allow Need to have the kind of hold over her that it did over her grandmother, isn't entirely sure she could get rid of it if she really needed to, and — considering the pain she went through the one time she almost lost it — generally isn't willing to find out.
Source: Literature / Heralds of Valdemar
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