as in to haunt
to go to or spend time in often
most summer afternoons, we'd hang at the municipal pool for a few hours
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Emma Donoghue’s Room, which continues to haunt worried parents everywhere?—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025 -
Even as Flamengo exorcised those Libertadores demons with victory over Ecuador’s Athletico Paranaense the following year, Palmeiras returned to haunt them in the 2023 Supercopa do Brasil final, emerging victorious in a seven-goal thriller.—
Jack Bantock,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Ben Kindel scored the Penguins’ only goal of the game, tying the score at 1-1 early in the second period, before the visiting New York Rangers ran away with a 6-1 win on Saturday night.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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While visiting, travelers can explore century-old shops and eat lobster boiled straight out of the ocean.—
Megan Margulies,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Oct. 2025
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During this hiatus, the actress travelled across Europe, visiting cities like Paris and frequenting tourist sites such as museums.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Financial sacrifices, dilemmas loom Norfolk military families said the shutdown had heightened the stakes of their financial choices, from comparison-shopping for the cheapest toilet paper to frequenting Costco to buy in bulk.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Hang (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hang%20%28at%29. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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