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Example Sentences
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TikTok upended the idea of the following graph, instead showing users videos from accounts they didn’t follow and figuring out what they liked based on how long they lingered on each video.
Even as the best films of 2025 linger in memory — it truly was a good year — we’re not sorry to flip the calendar page.
From Los Angeles Times
Cook would often stand at the top of the stairs of the youth club - a towering presence at 6ft 2ins - watching the street, greeting people and calling out to anyone who lingered too long outside.
From BBC
As inflation lingers and the jobs market cools -- while worries about valuations surrounding AI persist -- investors will keep a careful eye on the health of the world's biggest economy in 2026.
From Barron's
Fears of an AI bubble are guaranteed to linger.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
