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n. (holding pattern English)
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Holding Patterns is the first release from +/- after it had expanded to a touring band. This was also the first major release from the group to feature songwriting and lead vocals by Patrick Ramos. Pitchfork Media's review of the EP coined the term "lap-rock" to describe its marriage of electronic production and indie rock. It was released in a modified version in Japan, and the US version of the EP was packaged with the band's subsequent album You Are Here in Taiwan.
Holding Patterns is an upcoming American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jake Goldberger. The film stars Freddie Highmore, Odeya Rush, Haley Joel Osment, Christopher Meloni, and Marg Helgenberger. Filming began during the summer of 2015 in Mobile, Alabama.
Usage examples of "holding patterns".
Instead, they are ordered into apparently endless holding patterns by the airfield's psychotronic auto-tower, which was not informed that an airfleet of this size was expected to descend upon it.
The eagles that circled the mountaintop were the limousines and flying coupes of the Leisurefolk and Investors, soaring through endless loops of holding patterns.
Above them, mammoth battlefield one-eyes flew in precise holding patterns.
Then we were into clearer air, over the Atlantic, beyond the most used airlanes, even out past the holding patterns for transoceanic flights.
Sometimes I can hear the jets, laced into holding patterns over Narita.
They diverted all commercial traffic into holding patterns until the final curtain on the drama dropped.
A hundred kilometers away, twenty squadrons of Avenging Angels rose into the air and halved the distance from their bases to the swamp, where they orbited in holding patterns.
Filled with righteous joy, ninety pilots banked out of their holding patterns and sped toward the swamp, dropping as they went so they would be at attack altitude when they arrived on target.
Several Imperial spy craft were already flying holding patterns high above the desert, no doubt monitoring all channels and analyzing every signal for clues as to the location of Killik Twilight's thief.
They were going to end up in one massive airborne snarl of diversions and holding patterns, and both the reporter and the pilot in him wondered how the Washington Approach controllers were going to sort out the mess with a monster hurricane approaching.
Overhead, more than a hundred aircraft were circling in holding patterns perilously close to one another.
Rayford heard anger in the voices of other pilots as they were directed into holding patterns miles from the Condor.