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Recent Examples of lurks
Perhaps now, the couple will question everything while also trying to protect their children from the evil that lurks.
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
What’s playing on that magical cranial monitor, however, is one half of the shadow self that lurks behind all of Yes‘ provocations.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026
When a strange man lurks around the school asking supposedly innocent questions and the principal receives a severed human finger in the mail, the community is in an uproar.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Mar. 2026
Binary neutron stars have long been considered the best bet for deciphering what lurks within.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
Yet the real danger lurks in over-reliance.
—K. H. Koehler, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
But in the background of all these signings lurks uncertainty that could turn ironic.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Pollan is understandably chary about the potential romanticism that lurks behind his conclusions.
—Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
In the American pop-culture feedback loop, at the football-movie intersection between sports and cinema and how the two inform and reflect each other, lurks a line delivery that lasts only a couple of seconds.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2026
Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
What’s playing on that magical cranial monitor, however, is one half of the shadow self that lurks behind all of Yes‘ provocations.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026
When a strange man lurks around the school asking supposedly innocent questions and the principal receives a severed human finger in the mail, the community is in an uproar.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Mar. 2026
Binary neutron stars have long been considered the best bet for deciphering what lurks within.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
Yet the real danger lurks in over-reliance.
—K. H. Koehler, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
But in the background of all these signings lurks uncertainty that could turn ironic.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Pollan is understandably chary about the potential romanticism that lurks behind his conclusions.
—Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
In the American pop-culture feedback loop, at the football-movie intersection between sports and cinema and how the two inform and reflect each other, lurks a line delivery that lasts only a couple of seconds.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lurks
Verb
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Ortiz sneaks field recordings and samples into these songs, too—each adding texture to the universe of her songs and evoking the wider world that exists just outside the frame of her narration.—
Marissa Lorusso,
Pitchfork,
24 Mar. 2026
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But some sunlight still sneaks through Earth’s atmosphere, bends around the planet and lands on the moon.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Seize Qeshm Island, where Iran hides its anti-ship missiles and mines.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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The right edge hides a USB-C charging port behind a thick gasket.—
Mark Knapp,
PC Magazine,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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After one of Javadi's patients slips through the cracks, Dana calls in an old friend with experience running a low-tech ER.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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The Pleiades are at their most spectacular from October to March, after which the cluster slips ever lower in the spring sky, appearing closer to the horizon with each passing night.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Yorkville, which lies just south of Sugar Grove, has become a sort of hub for data center projects, in part due to the area’s proximity to a ComEd substation.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
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The difference in their reading habits lies not in the speed of their reading or the duration of their reading blocks but in their willingness to read in fragments.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Lurks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lurks. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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