as in bowing
bending downward or forward
stood penitently before the judge with a hung head while he received his sentence
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as in dangled
to place on an elevated point without support from below
hang your coats on the coat rack in the hall
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as in drooped
to be limp from lack of water or vigor
as they neared the end of the long, hard march all but the most hardy were hanging, and some could barely put one foot in front of the other
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as in hovered
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air
hanging just above the horizon was a little pink cloud
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as in based
to find a basis
that's very slim evidence upon which to hang a theory
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Recent Examples of hung
Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026
The 20-foot walls are hung salon-style with gilt frames surrounding oil paintings flirting at once with modernism and Renaissance styles.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
Iran has already hanged seven people in connection with the protests, which activists say were put down in a crackdown that killed thousands and led to tens of thousands of arrests.
—CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
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During the festivities, the Israeli effigy was symbolically tried, hung, shot and burned, according to social media posts and a report in the Israeli outlet YNet.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026
The 20-foot walls are hung salon-style with gilt frames surrounding oil paintings flirting at once with modernism and Renaissance styles.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
Ifwala—El día (Day) and Honatsi—La noche (Night) are framed and hung as paintings, the square format acting as an accentuating boundary.
—María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
Iran has already hanged seven people in connection with the protests, which activists say were put down in a crackdown that killed thousands and led to tens of thousands of arrests.
—CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
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The 2nd edition dangled a Picasso oil painting, Nature Morte (1921), which went to a young Italian man (or rather, his mother; the lottery ticket was her Christmas gift), and raised $6 million for wells and sanitation improvements in Cameron, Madagascar, and Morocco.—
Leigh Anne Miller,
ARTnews.com,
15 Apr. 2026
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The women, by contrast, said Weinstein dangled his Hollywood influence to draw them into his orbit and then victimize them.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Prior administrations — fom Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden — typically depended on geopolitical experts in international law, history, or intelligence, such as George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2026
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And Netanyahu has depended on him since long before any of this.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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But his mouth was open and drooped peculiarly to one side, and his skin was sucked into his skeleton like a vacuum storage bag.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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Two boys saw the balloons had drooped to the ground.—
Sue Ambrose,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Water levels hovered around 7 inches below the top of the dam Saturday at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex in Northern Michigan, after having spiked less than 6 inches from the top of the dam earlier in the week.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
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The Brent Crude front month contract hovered around $90, down more than 5% from just hours earlier, as Wall Street got set to open for trading.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2026
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The astronauts snapped thousands of photos during their historic pass around the moon, shot video and recorded their personal observations to give researchers insights based on the color sensitivity of the human eye.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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But prosecutors might have a difficult time convincing a jury that the five defendants are guilty of murder, said Linda Parisi, a defense attorney based in Sacramento.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.—
Aylin Woodward,
WSJ,
21 Dec. 2021
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Denver swung on Alabama’s Que Robinson as a developmental prospect in the fourth round last year on sheer upside, and Capehart could be a similar interior fit in this class.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
16 Apr. 2026
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Tomato prices swung wildly in March, jumping 35 cents.—
Claire Malon,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Broadway box office sagged a bit last week, possibly as the previous week’s Easter vacationers and spring-breakers returned home and a crowded, 40-show production slate with lots of newcomers competed with one another for attention.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
21 Apr. 2026
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Perhaps worse, ace Sandy Alcantara, whom the budget ball Fish are expected to trade, has sagged a bit after two great starts to open.—
Greg Cote
April 19,
Miami Herald,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Hung.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hung. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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