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Recent Examples of lurkedThe terrain was steep and mountainous, the forests were thick, and threats from buffalo and leopards lurked in the wilderness.—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025 Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025 For weeks, the New York Ripper case has lurked on the periphery of the series — a boogeyman that the show kept hinting was someone in Dexter’s life.—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025 Parasites lurked inside the fish and turned out to be a new species.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025 After the last election, in November 2022, Netanyahu formed a government with the backing of political parties and leaders from the far right, bringing to power forces in Israeli politics that had long lurked on the margins.—Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
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