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as in to swing
to place on an elevated point without support from below
hang your coats on the coat rack in the hall
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as in to droop
to be limp from lack of water or vigor
as they neared the end of the long, hard march all but the most hardy were hanging, and some could barely put one foot in front of the other
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as in to hover
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air
hanging just above the horizon was a little pink cloud
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as in dip
a downward slope
proceeded carefully on snowshoes down the steep hang
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as in slack
the extent to which something hangs or dips below a straight line
there's too much hang in the bunting on the parade float—nothing should be touching the ground
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Recent Examples of hang
Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2025
Bonita Vista has hung one section banner, Division 2 in 2012.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
Sam Reed, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2025
Poor Kamilla doesn’t get a hang of her slither and is still spasming through the sand by the time nearly everyone else has gotten through to the next phase of the challenge, which involves maneuvering their buoy through a rope maze and then untying and tossing three rings onto a hooked target.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 1 May 2025
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Shortly after noon, officers at the prison in Laurinburg found Robinson hanging by a sheet.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2025
Bonita Vista has hung one section banner, Division 2 in 2012.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
Noun
Aniston was absolutely serving ’90s Rachel Green for the occasion of their hang.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2025
Poor Kamilla doesn’t get a hang of her slither and is still spasming through the sand by the time nearly everyone else has gotten through to the next phase of the challenge, which involves maneuvering their buoy through a rope maze and then untying and tossing three rings onto a hooked target.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hang
Verb
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The president's team has now swung the pendulum in the opposite direction from five years ago, even attempting to rescind findings of constitutional violations in the cities where Floyd and Taylor lost their lives.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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The momentum swung again on the next hole when Griffin saved par from behind a tree in the fairway and Schmid curiously aimed away from the hole with his ball plugged in a bunker, ended up in the rough and made bogey.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 May 2025
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Clients depend on Snowflake for data storage and management through its cloud platform.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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SpaceX depends on government contracts for a significant share of its revenue.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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The weakness makes half of the face appear to droop.—
Christina Shaw,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Stress can cause the plant to not produce properly, and result in drooping leaves or discolored ones.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
25 Mar. 2025
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Over the years, the percentage of transactions conducted in cash has significantly dropped, with the average estimate now hovering around 20 percent.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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The purchase is worth around $509 million at current market prices, with Bitcoin hovering around $108,000.—
Niamh Rowe,
Quartz,
28 May 2025
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Last year, the Dodgers generated $4.29 million in ticket revenue per regular-season home game, based on figures from MLB’s internal gate report shared with Sportico by a non-Dodgers team.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
30 May 2025
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Anderson’s Academy Award-winning short based on the 1977 Roald Dahl short story of the same name, feels like a children’s pop-up book come to life.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
30 May 2025
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Mainland investors bought today’s dip with a healthy $1.2 billion worth of net buying via Southbound Stock Connect.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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On average, since 2018, the price of milk per gallon in the United States has increased, with a notable dip in May 2024.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Biggs said Valparaiso didn’t cut the county any slack in requiring it to pay a $39,000 building permit fee for the ongoing renovations to the Porter County Jail which is within city limits.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2025
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Besides the direct impact on competitive advantage, this disengagement often means the employees who haven’t checked out (yet) must pick up the slack.—
Shannon Gabriel,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Over the franchise's 30-year span, Cruise has done everything from dangling from a wire in Mission: Impossible to motorcycling off a cliff in Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.—
Skyler Trepel,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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The best of the McQuarrie films, Fallout picks up two years after the conclusion of Rogue Nation and, unusual for the series until this point, follows some threads left dangling by the previous film.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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“Hang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hang. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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