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hanging indent

In word processing, a paragraph that has all lines but the first indented. A hanging indent is also known as a hanging paragraph.

With many word processors, you can create hanging indents by specifying a negative indentation for the first line of each paragraph.

The following is an example of a hanging indent:



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