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State Treasurer Elizabeth Muoio was among them, still sorting through boxes and unhung picture frames.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
After her mother died in 1935, Carrie stopped working on the house, and when she herself passed nine years later, the pieces she’d collected were unhung.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
She’s staying in the spare room with the lumpy mattress and the unhung Jack Vettriano print, but in the night creeps downstairs to eat mini rolls and wonder how it all came to this.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2018
A recent visit to Connersmith Gallery found the art space in a state of mild disarray, with wooden packing crates scattered here and there, amid power tools and unhung paintings leaning against the wall.
From Washington Post
Abbott shrugged; and the colonel cursed himself for the guiltiest scoundrel unhung.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Arthur Ignatius Keller
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