lurk
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The roots of hatred run deep in our country, and always lurk just beneath the surface.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
THE LAW IS ill equipped to deal with the latent jealousy and hidden ambitions that lurk below the surface of inheritance disputes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
James noted the large increase in fuel prices underscored "potential threats that still lurk for consumers and businesses", and the UK should brace for higher inflation.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
The handheld camera prefers to lurk on the wooden side of the easel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
There the catfish would lurk, greedy for meat.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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Debt-aversion is a growing fear for students that lurks alongside cost-aversion, said Schraeder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
While some of the AI momentum paused Wednesday, good luck finding anyone who thinks an end to the AI spending spree lurks on the horizon.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
It suggests that no other irreversible power to immunize lurks in the Constitution’s silences.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
That disposition lurks behind his piercing hazel-green eyes, which seem to absorb every detail of the small coffeeshop and our fellow patrons, and it’s at the heart of how he moves through the world.
From Salon ● May 15, 2026
Though he will never forget that night, it no longer lurks persistently in his mind, stalking him in the same way.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Beneath those questions lurked a growing suspicion that the orders had something to do with artificial-intelligence companies’ insatiable need for new content to train their large language models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Somewhere in the back of my mind lurked the memory of soy-butter corn ramen, another reminder that corn, umami, fat and slurpable carbohydrates have always gotten along beautifully.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Both suffered outages on Thursday afternoon as Tropical Cyclone Narelle lurked off the coast of Western Australia.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
As the virus made its way over the next few months, and the capital city - along with the rest of the country - remained under a strict shutdown, tragedy lurked at every corner.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
Yet each resident had hidden terrors that lurked like sea monsters in the murky bottom of an unfathomable lagoon.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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Developers of the PHP platform on Wednesday rolled out patches to fix the vulnerabilities that had been lurking in their software for years.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Some of the most dramatic features in the gallery come from the enormous black holes lurking at the centers of galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Also waiting — or more accurately, lurking — in the background is the brooding Col.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
It wasn’t until the 1970s that Italian art historian Rodolfo Signorini discovered that Mantegna had included his own watchful face, lurking inside trompe l’oeil foliage on a west-wall pilaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
But Hanako could see it, lurking behind his false smile.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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