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
Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Each woman shares—in their own way—their various desires and dreams, yet are so hung up on the potential of failure, or what other people might think about them.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2026
Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 20 Mar. 2026
Motzko, who turns 65 next week, led Minnesota to a pair of Frozen Fours, including a national runner-up finish, and hung four Big Ten title banners during his tenure at the U, widely considered one of college hockey’s blueblood programs.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
The post claimed the sign was hung Wednesday, which was National Girls & Women in Sports Day.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Each woman shares—in their own way—their various desires and dreams, yet are so hung up on the potential of failure, or what other people might think about them.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
Over the summer, a plastic surgeon hung old movie stills of Denise Richards on his operating room wall.
—Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 20 Mar. 2026
Motzko, who turns 65 next week, led Minnesota to a pair of Frozen Fours, including a national runner-up finish, and hung four Big Ten title banners during his tenure at the U, widely considered one of college hockey’s blueblood programs.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026
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The bells that dangled off her red tunic jingled.—
Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Mar. 2026
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Over the past month, major Chinese cloud providers debuted their own version of OpenClaw, local governments dangled grants to startups that build OpenClaw apps, and a cottage industry sprung up helping users install the open-source framework.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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And from antiquity, Japan has suffered under natural disasters—people’s survival has depended on outside forces.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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Victory depended on scale, endurance, and the ability to outlast the other side.—
The AI Insider,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Mar. 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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The Blue Devils ended up with a six-point win, though the game spread hovered close to 30 by tipoff.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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For six straight days, call-out rates have hovered above 9% as employees continue working without pay.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
21 Mar. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Mar. 2026
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This article quotes from and is based largely on records from three lawsuits against formula manufacturers that went to trial in 2024 and are now on appeal.—
David Hilzenrath,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 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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My dad glanced behind us once to see if we were being followed, winked at me in the rearview mirror, and then swung our car toward Interstate 80, headed west.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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Then the pendulum swung and strength training came into vogue in the ’90s and 2000s as more research emerged suggesting that lifting could help improve bone health and prevent osteoporosis, Petrzela says.—
Caitlin Carlson,
SELF,
27 Mar. 2026
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Heaps of leathery brown prickly pear pads sagged into the dirt and ash.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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More than a half dozen homes were deemed unsafe as nearby roads and sidewalks sagged.—
Nick Caloway,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Hung.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hung. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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