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hover

verb as in hang, float over

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With the margin hovering near 0.5%, an automatic recount could still be triggered, but most observers see Wilson as the likely victor given her late surge and the small number of ballots remaining.

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Most of the physical size of an atom is made up of an electron cloud, which hovers around the nucleus.

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The captain said that such was the noise and chaos inside Murrayfield it felt like the stadium was "hovering".

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The Blue Chip consensus forecast expects personal consumption expenditure External link inflation—the Fed’s preferred measure—to hover near 3% through 2026.

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A twin-prop Chinook helicopter shatters the calm of the Dutch countryside, hovering just metres from a canal before dumping four huge sandbags into the water: welcome to Operation Cloudburst.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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