lingering

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This relationship suggests the seals may be repaying a lingering oxygen debt accumulated during diving and hunting trips.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

“Equity markets move on two things: earnings and liquidity. Right now, earnings are more than offsetting lingering liquidity concerns,” he says.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

Showers will ease for most, although over the highest Munros any lingering showers may fall as snow.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

“The ‘teflon market’ has proved resilient despite lingering concerns, driven by strong corporate profits,” notes Truist Chief Investment Officer Keith Lerner.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë