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Research by Rawlins’ colleague Jennifer Francis suggests that a quickly warming Arctic may be slowing those waves, causing short-term weather systems to linger.

From Slate

“Our stores will be inviting places to linger, with comfortable seating, thoughtful design and a clear distinction between ‘to-go’ and ‘for-here’ service.

From Salon

The sequence crystallizes James’ early-on warning that this would be a tour about pain and, although Eisenberg as a filmmaker doesn’t linger at the heartbreaking site, it has an outsized effect on the action, as well as on everyone’s emotions, especially Benji’s.

She lingers on articulating the word safe the way Jews linger on the final word of the central declaration of God’s unity in the Shema prayer, echad, which means “one.”

From Slate

You can’t linger on the word safe without lingering on the word one, but the central declaration of faith is not in one person.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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