variants
also hanged (over)
as in threatened
to remain poised to inflict harm, danger, or distress on
as long as the possibility of having to move again was hanging over them, the family couldn't really settle in
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Dyche led Burnley to a seventh-place finish in the Premier League and recently steadied the ship at Everton at a time when they were threatened by relegation.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025 -
Duffy has also threatened to pull another $160 million from California because of the state’s process to issue commercial driver’s licenses.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Oct. 2025
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The diplomatic declarations do nothing to help Palestinians in Gaza or those menaced by Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
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Fragmentation menaced the web from the outset.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Hung (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hung%20%28over%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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