hung in

verb

past tense of hang in
as in carried on

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hung in
  1. carried on
  2. got on
  3. got along
  4. made out
  5. got by
  6. managed
  7. endured
  8. persevered
Verb
  • The good vibes carried on with the year’s most competitive bidding war, eventually won by A24.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Twenty years after The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance have carried on with the album all the way to the top of the Billboard 200 chart.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of carried on
Verb
  • Hartford doubled the lead just three minutes later as Barry Coffey got on the end of one on a scramble in the box and pushed it past Charleson goalkeeper Luis Zamudio.
    — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026
  • During pre-production, the 80-year-old got on the line with Ippolito to walk him through his early years.
    — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of got on
Verb
  • And apparently, my skin wasn't the only one that got along with these pads.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Whether that announcement is marriage- or pickleball-related remains to be seen, but not everyone coming back together got along in the Big Brother house, so how does Chen Moonves feel about Jason De Puy and Kamu Kirk being reunited?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of got along
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  • Four of the mummified corpses also tested positive for alcohol, which likely came from drinking chicha, a beer made out of maize.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
  • My oldest gifted me a bouquet of red roses made out of Legos.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of made out
Verb
  • Those five goals came on 14 shots, the last from the left point by Hedman that somehow got by Hart late in the second.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • State police said all northbound lanes of the Bishop Ford were shut down after the crash, but traffic still got by on the right shoulder.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of got by
Verb
  • Deckhand Matt may just be the most audacious toe-stepper to debut in this franchise since Alesia, who, in the last season of Down Under, managed to rearrange the interior team according to her own proclivities.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2026
  • This looming ban — slipped into a sweeping budget bill passed by Congress last year — was set to go into effect this November before a bipartisan coalition of senators managed to punt the deadline by a month, to December 11.
    — Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of managed
Verb
  • But that was just a foreshock to what women's sports advocates endured at a Portland Thorns game two Fridays ago.
    — Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The 33-year-old man, lured to Cambodia with the offer of a receptionist job, endured daily beatings for a month, locked in a dark room somewhere in the Southeast Asian country.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of endured
Verb
  • Despite the job cuts, threats of land reduction, talks of privatization and even demolition within some parks, Indigenous groups and park partners have persevered.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • There’s a lesson, too, in sync with the vitality of these men and women who persevered, who never let an insight go unchallenged, a name go unforgotten or a memory about the Renaissance lie unadorned.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of persevered
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