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hang

[hang] / hæŋ /




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If someone calls claiming to be from a bank, hang up and call the bank yourself using the number on your statement or card.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Given how precarious the slope was, the group decided Mingma G would hang back and monitor by drone, instructing the three climbers.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Riders will be seated in a prone, face-forward position that will hang from the track above.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

"They were amazing and it made it the best professional experience of my life by far because I got to go to work every day with my kids and hang around," the 51-year-old told reporters.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

I grab it, grateful for someone steady to hang on to.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Another associate of Epstein, French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, was found hanged in his Paris prison cell in 2022.

From BBC Jul. 22, 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

Speer was given a 20-year prison sentence while Fritz Sauckel, Hitler’s general plenipotentiary for labor mobilization, was hanged for almost exactly the same crimes.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

Eichmann was found guilty and hanged in 1962.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Even with a cornerback hanging off one arm, Smith can reach out the other for the catch—a superpower that helped him haul in 82.1% of his targets last season despite facing constant double- and triple-coverage.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

In its home in Bayeux, it is displayed hanging vertically.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

“We’re really hanging on by a thread,” said Marcel Wittfeld of Peekaboo Playland.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The mother of a black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi, has told the BBC she is still waiting for answers from officials more than a month later.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

With front legs shaking, Handsome forced himself to take another step so that now he straddled two rocks, with his belly hanging over the water that rushed between them.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

But “Munich,” which followed six months later, goes straight to the questions of terrorism and endless cycles of retaliation that hung over the period.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Banners bearing photos of people killed in the protests were hung in the parliament grounds.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

The deadlock - known as a hung jury - does not mean prosecutors have proven their case, nor does it mean the defendant is not guilty.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

At the Hard Rock Hotel – one of two beachside hotels where they were able to stay off the ship – they hung around clutching their recent purchases.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

I sat for a while after he hung up on me, mourning the Dad I never had, as if the loss was new, rather than forever, before my grief turned into white-hot fury.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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