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
Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
Executives created videos, human resources staff created newsletters and mailed company swag and treats to employees’ homes, and team leaders hosted virtual events and games to keep everyone connected.
—Alanah Mitchell, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
Another way to deal with low ceilings is to swag a light fixture from the ceiling.
—Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
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Noun
Staying warm, protected For other Chiefs, some of their on-field swag is less about superstition and more about embracing the weather conditions.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
Executives created videos, human resources staff created newsletters and mailed company swag and treats to employees’ homes, and team leaders hosted virtual events and games to keep everyone connected.
—Alanah Mitchell, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
Payne is trying to rediscover that swag a right foot strain has toned down.
—Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
Another way to deal with low ceilings is to swag a light fixture from the ceiling.
—Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swag
Noun
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Here are some ideas to celebrate love without a lot of loot.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Orange County Register,
8 Feb. 2025
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Backyard Sports has never featured loot boxes or microtransactions, and locking a character like Pablo Sanchez behind an additional paywall would spark a fan revolt, causing parents to be hesitant to support the games.—
Jake Lang,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Yet this might be a win-win situation for a team that needs a bridge quarterback and a fading star who isn’t ready to hang ’em up yet.—
Mike Jones,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Every film frame can, if hung over a bed, lull you.—
Carlos Valladares,
ARTnews.com,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2024
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Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.—
Leslie Camhi,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
Verb
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The infestation causes the tree’s fronds to droop and the crown to turn brown and collapse or tilt.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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Continue to water and fertilize your onion plants until the leaves begin to droop, signaling harvest season has begun.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There’s an old gold vault just outside of Washington, D.C., that holds the kind of (national) treasures most film nerds can only dream of seeing.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 2025
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The irreplaceable Barbara Cook put her interpretive stamp on Sondheim’s songbook in her concert tributes, reanimating musical treasures through her own introspective moonlight.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Thus, too much glycation caused by excess sugar can result in accelerated signs of aging, like lines, wrinkles, dark spots and sagging skin.—
Leslie Baumann,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2025
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Rather, an eerie gloom sagged atop everything, an acknowledgement that somewhere, something had stopped being right.—
Megan Feringa,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Swag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swag. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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