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Not every 9-to-5 working couple wants to hear about or even hang out with a couple who appear to have not a care in the world.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Obviously, Cramer’s claims, which hang on cloning and time travel, are out there.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
When asked if people should believe him or the King, he said: "Well, I'm telling the truth... what else would have made me hang up on the King that day?"
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
“How much do you want to hang out with your mate? I got bored of being Dhani Harrison anyway — I like being Dragonflies now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
‘I have to be home by six. I promised I’d babysit for my younger brother. Another time, though? Perhaps we could hang out next Saturday, too?’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
In November, Hasina was found guilty by a Dhaka court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to be hanged -- a verdict she described as "political vengeance dressed up as law".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
It reminds me of the old joke about the guy in the Wild West who, before he was hanged for horse stealing, said “This will be a real lesson to me,” mournfully, from the scaffold.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Eichmann - an architect of the Jewish Holocaust - was hanged in 1962, becoming the only person previously sentenced to death by an Israeli civil court.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Medical schools received hanged criminals and deceased orphans, but demand greatly outstripped supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
She shifted her head slightly and added, "By the way, Mr. LeDue, in our grunge neighborhood, we say hanged, not hung. Check it out."
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
For owners who have been hanging on for lower interest rates but don’t have a solid turnaround plan, “things are past the point of no return.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
I arrived in Arizona with a heaviness hanging over me.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The singer had initially tried to get a head start on her sixth studio album at home in Los Angeles, but she felt a new kind of pressure hanging over her head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The 2020 and 2022 winner won back-to-back legs to make it 5-5 against Smith in the final but was hanging on as his opponent continued to score heavily albeit with a lower checkout success.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The show is all big photographs of different sizes expertly framed and hanging on the walls.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
He describes a summer when smoke from burning cleared land hung over his town for weeks.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Concerns that Meta is spending unsustainably on AI have hung over the stock in recent months.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The control gondola, analogous to a ship’s bridge, hung from the forward section of the keel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
On Tuesday, a silver cross on a long chain hung from the pine tree’s bark, which was peeling and blackened from the blaze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
It was like he had his own grumpy language, and if you hung around long enough you could pick up a word here or there.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
