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Appeared in the January 23, 2026, print edition as 'Europe Distrust of Washington Lingers After Greenland Crisis'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

January 17, 2013, 9:03 pm Mortgage Crisis Lingers On at Citigroup and Bank of America By More than four years after the financial crisis, many big banks have regained their footing.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2013

Mystery Lingers in Alcatraz Inmates’ Vanishing The notion that three men successfully escaped from the nation’s most forbidding prison has been a tantalizing if remote possibility for a half-century now.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2012

It was the same time for the Lingers.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2010

Good-bye to the New Castle, With granite walls and grey, And rooms where faded greatness still Lingers to-day.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle