as in to hang
to be limp from lack of water or vigor
the days of endless worrying had taken their toll, and the old woman's face swagged with exhaustion
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Recent Examples of swag
Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Garlands and swags also can be misted to keep them looking good.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2024
Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
Another way to deal with low ceilings is to swag a light fixture from the ceiling.
—Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
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Noun
Pan Am swag includes magnets, keychains, mini travel notebooks, a Pan Am logo throw blanket and more.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Garlands and swags also can be misted to keep them looking good.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2024
Verb
Payne is trying to rediscover that swag a right foot strain has toned down.
—Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
Another way to deal with low ceilings is to swag a light fixture from the ceiling.
—Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swag
Noun
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Remy and Mike are ready to call it quits after Bo (executive producer Jamie Lee Curtis) ostensibly falls to her death and Charlie (Mark O’Brien) growls his threats from Boston, but Ruth’s idea to use a tanker truck gets them back in with the hope of an even greater loot than before.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
7 Dec. 2024
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The presentation is more in the vein of the board from the Civilization games — as maps are completed, the board will expand, removing a fog of war to unlock more maps and specific destinations with modifiers, loot, and so on.—
Diego Argüello,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Instead, Peak suggests storing your knives in a drawer or utilizing vertical space and installing a magnetic knife strip on your kitchen wall and hanging your knives.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
9 Jan. 2025
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Additionally, the rescue's vets determined that the large tumor hanging from the dog's abdomen — which sometimes touched the ground when Snow White stood — was connected to one of the canine's mammary glands.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2024
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Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.—
Leslie Camhi,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Her head drooping, Carolina made brief eye contact with the camera multiple times, but only briefly, before returning to her depressed, drooping stance.—
Paul du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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By Wim’s side through thick and thin is his best friend, Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), a blue elephant boy with a stubby trunk, wispy hair that looks like raspberry cotton candy, and ears that droop down over his shoulders.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
2 Dec. 2024
Noun
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By bringing back to the fold a lost treasure from the storied past.—
Han Ong,
The New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2025
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Archaeologists recently unveiled remarkable artifacts from Viking graves in Norway — all thanks to a pair of metal detectorists who unwittingly stumbled across the treasure.—
Andrea Margolis,
Fox News,
8 Jan. 2025
Verb
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On the other hand: The Chargers’ defense sagged against Baltimore and Tampa Bay in the second half of the year.—
Jordan Brenner,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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But the skin can undergo changes in midlife too, including sagging, thinning and becoming more dry.—
Erica Sweeney,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Swag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swag. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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