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strung-out

[struhng-out] / ˈstrʌŋˈaʊt /


















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There’s a fast-talking salesman, his strung-out wife and their deranged robot vacuum, which has a mind of its own.

From New York Times

One year into the pandemic, the whole strung-out world could probably use some form of H.A.L.T., not least designers charged with producing a vision of a future whose shape is impossible to discern.

From New York Times

Hell’s Kitchen, though, has long been a repository for social maladies — strung-out junkies hanging around the Port Authority, methadone clinics, the pedestrian dead zone at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel to New Jersey.

From New York Times

Moses has a rat-tail, strung-out eyes and a tattoo on his cheek that might as well read “bad news”; Milla, instantly smitten, brings him home to dinner.

From Los Angeles Times

Gray’s Persephone has the sultry, somewhat strung-out air of a jazz diva who can still access her heart beneath the weary cynicism.

From Los Angeles Times