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He is also alleged to have "loitered in the area of her temporary residence".

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024

Others have loitered in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2022

In a July 31 intelligence bulletin, the Department of Homeland Security said it had recorded more than 500 cases since 2012 in which unauthorized drones have loitered over “sensitive sites and critical installations.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2015

Would he have loitered at York at such a crisis, if he had intended to step into the throne?

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace

Reading his acts by the light of such mute traces as he left behind him, the police became aware that latterly he must have loitered.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas