lingers
- present tense form of linger (3rd person singular).
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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
Then, too, the farewell kiss— The words, whose parting tone Lingers still in dreams of bliss, That haunt young hearts alone.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
