loiter

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They can loiter over the battlefield as long as 20 hours on a single tank of fuel, allowing them to wait for mobile missile launchers to emerge from hiding and then strike them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

During this phase, the spacecraft will follow a large "loiter" orbit that stretches roughly 2 million miles from Earth.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

It is, of course, on the policy detail that disagreements loiter.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2025

In the Plus bonus mini-episode: Starbucks wanted to be a classy Italian espresso house, but it became a modern milkshake shop for teens to loiter and flirt.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2024

After such an experience he would sometimes loiter and swim for the rest of the day.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes