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lurk

[lurk] / lɜrk /


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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

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

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

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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