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The phrase "hold me back from" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase implies that there is something that is preventing a person from doing something that they want to do. For example: "My ambition to become a doctor was only held back from coming true by my lack of money."
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Nothing, I promised myself, would hold me back from joy.
"Fear that judgment and rejection would hold me back from my dreams and aspirations," he wrote.
Not driving did not hold me back from covering fashion weeks in London, Milan and Paris.
"Those golds hold me back from doing a lot of things I want to do".
Fear that judgment and rejection would hold me back from my dreams and aspirations.
"The disappointment of Lytham shouldn't hold me back from taking advantage of the way I'm playing at the moment".
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It's not holding me back from my regular shots".
My own preconceived notions were like a barrier holding me back from experiencing everything authentically.
This was my initial reaction, and the one that still holds me back from diving in to VR headfirst.
To what extent was my legal work in the outside world holding me back from the prophetic realization offered by Walter John Harmon?
Then I became quite frightened that I was trying to replicate her manner of voice, her tone, and that was holding me back from discovering my own.
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