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hover

verb as in hang, float over

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Instead, with deep feeling and lacerating and gentle words, Leigh creates a world that, like the vast, mysterious one hovering outside its frame, can seem agonizingly empty if you can’t see the people in it.

In the first, a quadrotor drone was able to observe four hovering white balls while avoiding four orange balls, all while navigating an airfield rife with randomly occurring, dangerous air currents, or thermals.

The country is one of the poorest in the world, where average annual incomes in cities hover around $1,500, according to the International Monetary Fund.

From BBC

However, rather than pressing the tip into the surface like a record player needle, the tip hovers just a single atom's width above it.

Then there were calls to investigate his wife after she was caught accepting a Dior handbag as a gift - a scandal that is always hovering close to the headlines.

From BBC

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

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