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leave hanging
verb as in quit
Example Sentences
Blaiklock said the court shouldn’t leave hanging a potential legal dispute over whether differing actions by the governor or Legislature would prevail during a future emergency.
Shor’s performance is in many ways series’ the most moving — we are primed for Liza and Maggie and Kelsey to succeed in some way or another, but Diana is the kind of character many series would be satisfied to portray as a villain or a fool and mock or punish or just leave hanging.
I like for readers to be able to develop their own ideas about what might follow from the few threads I leave hanging.
In 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Brownlow Committee warned of the dangers of a “headless fourth branch” of government and argued that “no administrative reorganization worthy of the name can leave hanging in the air more than a dozen powerful, irresponsible agencies free to determine policy and administer law.”
Blumberg said that for lifers, commutation is preferable because it doesn’t leave hanging the threat of a return to life in prison for a violation of release conditions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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