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Another is regulatory, as officials must stay alert to the corners of the financial system where potential risks may lurk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The roots of hatred run deep in our country, and always lurk just beneath the surface.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

"When I'm looking at universities, I do always have a lurk in whether they have bees and that does come into account for me, strangely enough," she said.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

These grandmothers have loads of experience, and some wisdom to go with it, but they do not lurk in the background waiting for their cue to dispense it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

All have been accused of crimes they speak of only with reticence, anxious about what traps might lurk within any question he puts to them.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Near Darkness lurks a table laden with sugar-crusted fruit and an elaborately stemmed flute holding what looks like champagne.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

We’re entering Los Angeles, circa 1981, and just like the Overlook Hotel, danger lurks beneath a glamorous facade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

SpaceX shares are ever-so-slightly coming back down to earth — but stock indexes represent a fresh catalyst that lurks on the horizon.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 2026

More than the economic and fiscal costs, a social disaster lurks behind these numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Anthropology tells us and archaeology implies that our uncivilised ancestors could be red in tooth and claw; psychoanalysis seeks to persuade us that the savage in all of us lurks not far below the skin.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Drones also lurked near ports and other infrastructure sites, and they shut down civilian traffic at major airports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Both suffered outages on Thursday afternoon as Tropical Cyclone Narelle lurked off the coast of Western Australia.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

These gloomy thoughts lurked in my subconscious as I gobbled up this entire book over Thanksgiving weekend.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

They lurked in the misty, pitch-black marshes of the River Hull valley.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

Usually that was enough to remind the people that magic still lurked in half-forgotten places.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

Developers of the PHP platform on Wednesday rolled out patches to fix the vulnerabilities that had been lurking in their software for years.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some of the most dramatic features in the gallery come from the enormous black holes lurking at the centers of galaxies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Also waiting — or more accurately, lurking — in the background is the brooding Col.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

An action-packed supernatural thriller: Netflix’s new No. 1 show, Below, stars Josh Hartnett as a brooding Newfoundlander haunted by something supernatural lurking in the ocean’s depths.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Finn sniffed a sleeve, and there it was: Mom’s unique odor, a mix of vanilla and Spring Breeze laundry detergent, with maybe some cinnamon and grass stain lurking underneath.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix