lingers
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Appeared in the January 23, 2026, print edition as 'Europe Distrust of Washington Lingers After Greenland Crisis'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
January 17, 2013, 9:03 pm Mortgage Crisis Lingers On at Citigroup and Bank of America By More than four years after the financial crisis, many big banks have regained their footing.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2013
Mystery Lingers in Alcatraz Inmates’ Vanishing The notion that three men successfully escaped from the nation’s most forbidding prison has been a tantalizing if remote possibility for a half-century now.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2012
It was the same time for the Lingers.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2010
The sight of this little book, as thick as, and somewhat broader than, a Valpy's Virgil, will make scores of little Lord Lingers think of "bygone mirth, that after no repenting draws."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828 by Various
