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  1. Hanging On

    Hanging On is a song by American singer and songwriter Active Child from his debut studio album, You Are All I See (2011). It was written by Active Child and Ariel Rechtshaid, and produced by Rechtshaid. The song's music video, directed by T. S. Pfeffer and Robert McHugh, debuted on January 19, 2012. English singer Ellie Goulding covered "Hanging On" in 2012, while Australian alternative rock band Something for Kate included an acoustic cover of the song as a bonus track on the two-disc special edition of their 2012 album Leave Your Soul to Science.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hanging on in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hanging on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of hanging on in a Sentence

  1. Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953:

    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  2. Ryan Blaney:

    Everyone is kind of hanging on for dear life.

  3. Kathleen King:

    I think a lot of it has to do with the connection to our past, whether it was a grandmother, a mother, a place visited, a summer home or family time. It's also usually the first cookie every child learned how to make, and so I think there's a tremendous emotional attachment and remembrance with the chocolate chip cookie, lifestyles are changing, but that connection is still hanging on.

  4. Mark Zandi:

    A lot of retailers are hanging on because the broader economic environment is strong, interest rates are low, credit is available, no sector is more dependent on credit. If a recession comes, credit will get cut off both to the consumers and the retailers. That is going to mean a rash of bankruptcies and a lot of lost jobs.

  5. Prosecutor Molins:

    The head was discovered hanging on the factory's wire fence, framed by two flags that included references to the shahada, or (Muslim) profession of faith.


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