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  • past participle of hover.
  • past tense form of hover.

hovered



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The benchmark 10-year gilt for a time hovered near a 20-year high at 5.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The character hovered beside Kimmel during his Thursday monologue and offered to handle everything from his social media posts to his personal needs.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Lee herself hovered around the computer bank, watching people interact with them and discovering the random documents left behind or playing one of Apple’s preset games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

For much of the past few years, the 10-year yield has hovered between 4% and 5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee



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