hanging
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Enforcing a phone-free policy at her personal request, the North Philadelphia native kept the audience intensely locked in — hanging onto her every word and every seemingly impossible note she struck with ease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
His second reason to remain upbeat is that most stocks have been hanging in there even as major indexes drop, due to “resilient” market breadth — the number of stocks rising versus those falling.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
"The harvest is hanging by a thread," he told AFP from his vineyard in the village of Spay, looking out over the Rhine and hills scorched a deep brown by the heat.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Gratefully I handed her my hat, which she added to a row of clothes hanging from hooks along one wall.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The transformation took 875 hours and included the installation of emerald-green silk wall hangings and new lighting.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
It does not, for example, permit wall hangings that don’t actually exist.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
The bed, fitted with exquisite blue-and-white toile hangings, reflects the Washingtons’ taste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
The gods had no rainbow bridge to parade across as they entered Valhalla at the end, just the organ pipes magisterially seen through the hangings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
She ran to the window and nearly ripped the curtains from their hangings as she opened them to the gray mountains and bleakness of Endovier.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
