Synonyms of taking hold

taking hold

phrase

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.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• working
• operating
• performing
• taking effect
• taking
• reacting
• acting
• responding
• resulting
• affecting
• behaving
• influencing
• panning out
• swaying
• redounding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• backfiring
• fizzling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of taking hold

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

Marcin Golba | Nurphoto | Getty Images Best Buy on Thursday reported better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results and raised its full-year outlook as the company's recovery showed more signs of taking hold. — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 27 Aug. 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

To some extent, the 2026 festival was a retrospective of the late twentieth century, when modernist strictures were loosening and a more expansive, pluralistic mentality was taking hold. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026