lingers
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Appeared in the January 23, 2026, print edition as 'Europe Distrust of Washington Lingers After Greenland Crisis'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
January 17, 2013, 9:03 pm Mortgage Crisis Lingers On at Citigroup and Bank of America By More than four years after the financial crisis, many big banks have regained their footing.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2013
Mystery Lingers in Alcatraz Inmates’ Vanishing The notion that three men successfully escaped from the nation’s most forbidding prison has been a tantalizing if remote possibility for a half-century now.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2012
The Lingers first won the world title in 2003.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2012
Smiling came one With brush and a will, Undelaying, unpressed, And the glancing gold of the tremulous sun Lingers for man, inescapable, won.
From Path Flower and Other Verses by Dargan, Olive Tilford
