hanging over
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Whether any of the more incremental steps, including the trade board and a promise to keep talking about AI, amounts to more than atmospherics is the question hanging over the visit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
I arrived in Arizona with a heaviness hanging over me.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The singer had initially tried to get a head start on her sixth studio album at home in Los Angeles, but she felt a new kind of pressure hanging over her head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Earl Spencer's emotional and defiant speech at her funeral added to that cloud of grievance hanging over Diana's untimely death.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
His grandma’s precious clock, hanging over the mantelpiece, the pendulum swinging back and forth, back and forth, like it was getting on with its own, private life, not caring about Conor at all.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
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