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Recent Examples of linger The chaos on Wilshire Boulevard around MacArthur Park had mostly calmed by 11:30 a.m., though a few protesters and members of the news media lingered afterward. Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025 Clueless still haunts our cultural imagination, lingering in our minds like a Cranberries CD left on the quad. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2025 While the rain has ended, creeks and streams will remain high through this morning and lingering flood waters will be slow to recede. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2025 Despite lingering concerns about government overreach from the pandemic among conservatives, every county opted in to receive the extra state funding this past year. Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for linger
Recent Examples of Synonyms for linger
Verb
  • Apple looks to have delayed the release of the new macOS hardware into 2026.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • The flight has since been delayed and is now expected to depart from Sydney at 7:25 a.m.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 12 July 2025
Verb
  • In particular, website owners and SEO experts wanted to know how Cloudflare planned to block Google's bot from scraping sites to fuel AI overviews without risking blocking the same bot from crawling for valuable search engine placements.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2025
  • Both are unable, under any circumstances, to resist crawling under someone doing a downward-facing dog.
    Erika Sjule, New Yorker, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • The hard foul came after Sheldon poked Clark in the eye in the third quarter.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
  • The couple began dating in 2023 and frequently poke fun at each other on their social media pages.
    Caroline Blair, People.com, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • That’s good for everyone, even expat journalists dragging their kids along to cover a new story.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
  • The plucky little superdog drags Superman to the Fortress of Solitude, where he is treated by a posse of robots.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • In another scenario, New Berlin police officers responded to a woman who was loitering and recognized signs of schizophrenia and PTSD.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
  • Two men in T-shirts, who had been loitering for hours, followed him.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • Iris Delgado, 33, has strolled the Home Depot parking lot nearly every day with a cart of water bottles for day laborers and a cellphone to occasionally livestream.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
  • In other words, curiosity seekers can stroll by the Littrells’ house with their feet in the water, but can’t stop to hang out and grab some rays.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 9 July 2025

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“Linger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linger. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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