remain

verb

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1
as in to stay
to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time one of the three bridges known as "the London Bridge," it was moved in the late 1960s to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it remains today

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2
as in to continue
to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state the fact remains: it's still impossible to be in two places at once

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