HANGS ON Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

hangs on

verb

present tense third-person singular of hang on

as in carries on

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as in holds on

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This hotel carries on the best of Edinburgh traditions while going above and beyond with 21st-century comforts.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Stockton did have seven carries on Saturday, rushing for only 22 yards.

— Connor Riley, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of carries on

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The compilation misses remaining in the highest tier by only two rungs, while The Essential Michael Jackson barely holds on inside the bottom quarter of the 200-position roster.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
House Bill 945 establishes new regulations for cryptocurrency kiosks and allows financial institutions to place temporary holds on transactions when elder financial exploitation is suspected.

— Christopher Harris, CBS News, 29 June 2026

Definition of holds on

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Gizelle, who has been stirring the pot and playing producer for everyone on the trip, keeps up her conniving ways by sitting down all the RHOP ladies except for Candiace during their Potomac retrospective moment at the party.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
If that keeps up for any length of time, tension around capital allocation starts to build.

— Adam Coffey, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of keeps up

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This story persists, even though the Plath scholar Janet Badia, in her foundational book Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers, proved definitively that these protests never happened.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
What’s even more interesting is that the pattern persists above the temperature where uranium ditelluride stops being superconducting.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of persists

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But if an application still waits for separate handoffs among sales, credit, compliance, and operations, the customer may see little improvement.

— David Pralong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Lower reimbursement can mean fewer available physicians, longer waits for appointments, and greater reliance on emergency rooms for routine care.

— Nicolette Natale, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026

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