as in to hang
to be limp from lack of water or vigor
the days of endless worrying had taken their toll, and the old woman's face swagged with exhaustion
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Recent Examples of swag
Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Tickets, however, are an entree to more than just the car show; the festival-like event, staged on the golf course at The Quail Lodge, allows guests to stroll casually through the field of exhibitors, many offering parasols, hats and swag.
—Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2023
Offsite developed a software platform to help with sourcing, contracting, and planning everything from location to swag.
—Constance Dierickx, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
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Noun
Give me the swag, give me the attitude.
—Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Tickets, however, are an entree to more than just the car show; the festival-like event, staged on the golf course at The Quail Lodge, allows guests to stroll casually through the field of exhibitors, many offering parasols, hats and swag.
—Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
Lunch and dinner dine-in guests also will get complimentary Cosmik Fries and swag while supplies last.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2023
Offsite developed a software platform to help with sourcing, contracting, and planning everything from location to swag.
—Constance Dierickx, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swag
Noun
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Much of the backlash stemmed from its reliance on live-service models, microtransactions, and controversial mechanics like loot boxes.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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An investor may need to adjust future cash flows if the studio relies on loot boxes in regions where probability disclosures are trending toward mandatory.—
Dmitrii Khasanov,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Framed black and white photos of her now-adult children as youngsters hang along one wall, serving as a sweet reminder of days past.—
Lennie Omalza,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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The buck came directly to Piepenburg and began making a scrape almost directly under his hang-on stand.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As an alliance grew between senators and financial powers, public figures began profiting from real-estate speculation, slave trading, and overseas plunder—while masking their involvement.—
Zephyr Teachout,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2025
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Reparations, long proposed as the only measure proportionate to the scale of racial plunder, look increasingly like a political, economic, and legal non-starter.—
Idrees Kahloon,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
Verb
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When treating forehead lines together with glabellar lines, headaches are most common (9 percent), followed by brow drooping and eyelid drooping (each 2 percent).—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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Deeper down the road the slap of the drooping tropical tree branches against the windshield are like punishing whacks to the face for trying to force a metaphor.—
Matt Negrin,
Rolling Stone,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Visit an antique store In honor of Kim's Antiques, pop into a local vintage shop and try to find any Stars Hollow-like treasures — maybe even a quirky piece for your home.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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Vandalism, trash and human waste will tarnish natural treasures that are the envy of the world.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
Verb
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This can lead your soft tissues to sag into those gaps, causing your muscles to tense up in compensation.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
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Much of the composition is given to the trio of commissioners who, tasked with investigating charges of bias in the trial, upheld the verdict—their faces sagging and stony, their staid officiousness echoing the resolute lines of the courthouse behind them.—
Nicole Rudick,
The New York Review of Books,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Swag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swag. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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