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[hang-ing] / ˈhæŋ ɪŋ /


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"It's unbearable. We can't open the windows, even the oranges in the garden and the laundry hanging out to dry are covered in black dust."

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I don’t want to talk to you guys,” Ding told a reporter before hanging up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

"We borrowed some microphones, Kevin had built a small computer and we recorded the first album like that, basically just hanging out together," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Average U.S. gas prices tracked by AAA were hanging above $4.41 a gallon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She just touched the tail hanging down from Tansy’s wrist.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Dahlia Lithwick: In a country that historically did beheadings, hangings, all sorts of objectively gross executions, the decision was made somewhere along the line to medicalize executions, to make it look like dental surgery.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 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

Isermann experimented with screen-printed cloth and pieced-fabric wall hangings in the early 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

He was back in the dank room with the tom bed hangings, and the face was wrong, not hers, too round, with a brown fringe of beard.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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