linger
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Four months later, a cover of The Cranberries' Linger for Sirius XM entered the US Top 100 and became the band's biggest song on Spotify, with 223 million plays.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
Linger, for instance, in the bar, and you’ll notice dozens of scenes unfolding inside the windows of the skyscrapers, each one an improvised, abstracted story.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025
“As 2023 Begins, Worry and Fear Linger After a Topsy-Turvy Year,” The Hollywood Reporter fretted, calling the ups and downs of the 2022 box office “dramatic.”
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2023
Linger long enough on the border of a time zone and they begin to feel suspiciously arbitrary.
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2022
But the middle of a respectable river, or the Other Side, was no place for children to Linger, Loll or Learn Things.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing linger
The Diary of Anne Frank
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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