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dangling

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Drivers pack their cars with air fresheners—and not just the dangling kind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

It incentivized competition in part by dangling more than $500,000 in prize money for each player on the winning team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Their surfaces do not contain dangling bonds, which makes it difficult to grow an extremely thin dielectric film evenly across them.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Footage from inside showed rescue workers in orange overalls and white helmets picking their way through a mass of twisted steel, dangling cables and chunks of ceiling.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Up until then, we were spiraling further down...Now we were dangling there. We weren’t falling anymore.”

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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