as in to delay
to move or act slowly
since they were charging by the hour, the house painters lingered in finishing up their work
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Recent Examples of linger
Fall Prime Day is officially over, and these lingering discounts will most certainly be gone by tomorrow.
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PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
The gold rally reflects unease about the economy and lingering concerns about inflation, which has been stuck above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target for the past four and a half years.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
With a powdery opening and a grounding nutmeg and tonka bean base, this eau de parfum lingers on skin and clothes for hours without overpowering.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
That injury has lingered for nearly a month.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
The gold rally reflects unease about the economy and lingering concerns about inflation, which has been stuck above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target for the past four and a half years.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
With a powdery opening and a grounding nutmeg and tonka bean base, this eau de parfum lingers on skin and clothes for hours without overpowering.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
That injury has lingered for nearly a month.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linger
Verb
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Persons should delay all travel if possible.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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Should your flight get delayed or canceled, whether through staffing shortages, a technical meltdown or extreme weather (a nor’easter is expected on the East Coast this weekend), CNN Travel has some advice on what to do next.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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Instead of nurturing bold concepts through this early stage, investors are now implicitly asking that entrepreneurs crawl through it alone.—
Roman Axelrod,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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And there's these little worms crawling around.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Cowboys poked a hole in the Jets’ balloon after the Hall fumble.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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An alligator’s head could be seen poking out of the water just a few feet away as Whaley prepared to take his shot, but the 30-year-old quickly brought the ball back onto dry land and escaped with par on the 11th green.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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Linda also drags her daughter to a clinic for regular treatments, none of which seem to do any good.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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That was Emily, the fifer, dragging a man out of bed.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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German and French delegations packed new national pavilions, Polish and Dutch firms demoed loitering munitions and EW suites, and US primes like Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), and AeroVironment dominated the floor with NASAMS, HIMARS, and unmanned systems.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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The American model also calls for the storm to head back out to sea starting on Monday, while the European model has the storm loitering just offshore through at least Tuesday.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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The man in the box turns out to be Chalamet, who emerges with a shorn head in a Marty Supreme sweatsuit and strolls off the field, into a shipping container, and onto a movie junket set-up.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2025
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Five minutes later, Chris Jones strolls into the same space — not all that unlike his stroll on his final play — and offers the same sentiment more forcefully.—
Sam McDowell
Updated October 7,
Kansas City Star,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Linger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linger. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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