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dwells on

verb as in linger over; be engrossed in

verb as in linger

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No one dwells on the 2020 election nearly as much as Donald Trump, who reminds supporters of his refusal to concede at nearly every campaign stop.

From Salon

“Leave the World Behind” dwells on the tensions between the Sanfords and Scotts in ways that address race without actively naming it.

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Neither dwells on the legions of reporters and editors whose careers have been derailed as the business, fixated on declining profits and slow to adapt to the internet, has shed jobs.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise appears weary of President Biden’s climate agenda, a plan which typically dwells on global warming, zero emissions goals, unreasonable regulations, renewable energy, a preoccupation with environmental concerns, and other things.

“Oppenheimer” dwells on the moral qualms of the physicists who put together and tested the bomb in New Mexico.

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

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