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Example Sentences
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Typically, after work crews clear away fire debris and several inches of topsoil from burned-down homes, federal or state disaster officials arrange for the same contractors to test the soil for lingering contamination.
From Los Angeles Times
But investors are still bracing for a central bank marked by unusual division, a potentially weaker chair and the lingering threat of more radical change.
People lingering at night along the shorelines of a small, affluent city north of Miami have been startled lately when they look up.
Yet most of that life is made up of very small organisms, raising a long-standing question about why large predators would linger there for so long.
From Science Daily
I keep a household binder that I update quarterly, a habit that became strangely essential while recovering from lingering post-COVID brain fog.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
