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Recent Examples of hang-up
Later the same day, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and moderate Republicans zeroed in on a SALT agreement, three sources told The Hill, solving one critical hang-up.
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The Hill Staff, The Hill, 21 May 2025
The hang-ups prompted the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid, to delay its plan to hold a meeting to advance its part of the package this week.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 7 May 2025
As Paramount Global seeks Trump administration approval of its merger with Skydance, the company is anxious to close the deal, and the lawsuit is viewed as a hang-up.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
Read Next National Woman found covered in blood after 911 hang-up call, UT officials say.
—Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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The Hill Staff, The Hill, 21 May 2025
The hang-ups prompted the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid, to delay its plan to hold a meeting to advance its part of the package this week.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 7 May 2025
As Paramount Global seeks Trump administration approval of its merger with Skydance, the company is anxious to close the deal, and the lawsuit is viewed as a hang-up.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
Read Next National Woman found covered in blood after 911 hang-up call, UT officials say.
—Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hang-up
Noun
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It was emptied of us and, therefore, full of dunes and demons, bogs and bleeding trees.—
Devon Walker-Figueroa,
The New York Review of Books,
3 July 2025
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Things become messy when a popular rival boy band – The Saja Boys – are revealed to be demons.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Noun
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This Christlike journey of scapegoating and torment ends in comeuppance for the haters and doubters, whose petty provocations tend to evoke a Bond villain in adolescence.—
Joshua Hunt,
Vulture,
5 June 2025
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District loses appeal, must pay $1 million for El Segundo middle schooler’s year of torment.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2025
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“Hang-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hang-up. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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