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“At the end of the day, when the man said, ‘Cut,’ I take that character off like this shirt and hang him up in the closet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
On his walls, portraits of Kuwait's emir and crown prince hang alongside a plaque reading: "There is no place like the homeland, and no homeland like Kuwait."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Even if the set list is often similar, though, she has a group of friends to hang out with at many of the more than 30 Styles shows she has attended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The web never quite reached the global utopian vision of its 1990s early adopters, but for about two decades it was a good hang.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
For a moment, Bat thought maybe Mr. Grayson was going to let him skip the game and just hang out with Babycakes.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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
Again the reigning successor to George III will be obliged to say nice words about the men his ancestor would gladly have hanged from the nearest tree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
When Chernin’s Leo raises his voice in Jewish prayer before he is hanged, the memory of a man whose life was wantonly destroyed is momentarily restored.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
When she hanged up, I said, “You worry ’bout that ole lady too much.”
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
The one picture hanging on the wall is another of Cowin’s images from the same series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Graves is a regular face in all of this, going on beloved YouTube shows like Mythical Kitchen and hanging out with the likes of Glen Powell on camera, all in the name of Cane’s.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
“I am hanging on to an academic career by my fingernails,” the 39-year-old wrote in May, as he plied his trade as a part-time postdoc at a public university in Belgium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A question hanging over the campaign for January's general election, which officially kicked off this week, is whether the PDP can survive.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
People haven’t lined up in alphabetical order yet—everyone’s just hanging out—so we join Eliana and Jade under the basketball hoop.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
It’s been a good retirement, since Fed formally hung it up in September 2022, at that Laver Cup finale where he and Rafa Nadal cried and pretty much everybody else did, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Berner warned that new homeowners should not get hung up on their home’s value after they move in, as it could lead to unnecessary anxiety.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Out in the parking lot, I hung out for some time before another car arrived, a blue Chevy Silverado with Illinois plates.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
With one out and a runner on first, Sasaki hung a slider right over the middle to Andrew Vaughn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
He wore a bulky robe of brown reindeer hide that hung all the way to his calves, and a broad belt of red buckskin.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
