lurk
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Someone who can see your screen can learn a lot about you: how much is in your bank account, what corporate secrets lurk in your email or—most sensitively—the code you type to unlock your phone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
When that happens, danger tends to lurk around the corner.
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
He completely avoids the TV cameras and photographers who lurk around Whitehall at times of political crisis.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
Yet while this theme — dubbed the “TACO trade” by some — encourages dip-buying, it may also be leaving investors too complacent about new sources of volatility that could lurk on the horizon in 2026.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 17, 2026
She let the words take her away to some world where things didn’t keep catching fire around her and death didn’t lurk around every corner.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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