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
What is true today, as potential bidders for the Dodgers lurk and coalesce amid L.A.’s turn at uncertainty, is that the Padres have an energetic and effervescent couple as their new principal owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Their formation in markets often suggest further price declines lurk on the horizon.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
"When I'm looking at universities, I do always have a lurk in whether they have bees and that does come into account for me, strangely enough," she said.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Who knows what germs lurk in those circles?
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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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
Near Darkness lurks a table laden with sugar-crusted fruit and an elaborately stemmed flute holding what looks like champagne.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
While the show doesn’t confront it directly, Simpson also said the “specter of AIDS” lurks in the background for the teens who “think they’re invincible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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 lurks outside the light, waiting to rush in like a sudden flood.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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For behind the humility, résumé, folksy affect and demonstrable legislative mastery has always lurked a little engine of ambition that, like Lincoln’s, “knew no rest.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Both suffered outages on Thursday afternoon as Tropical Cyclone Narelle lurked off the coast of Western Australia.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
It turned out to be a freshly bricked-up doorway – an attempt to hide what lurked behind.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
These gloomy thoughts lurked in my subconscious as I gobbled up this entire book over Thanksgiving weekend.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025
The significance of this cannot be overstated, for the failure to acknowledge the humanity and dignity of all persons has lurked at the root of every racial caste system.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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The internet’s dark underbelly was always there, lurking slightly out of frame behind the firewall.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
Gran unbolted the door, and we stood in the doorway leading into her garage, shadows and dark outlines lurking throughout.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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