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When these displaced, grief-laden men lingeringly intersect late in the novel, nothing really changes in terms of the plot but everything changes in terms of the book’s spiritual design.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

I'd like to have a relationship with his child, and for my children to know their cousin, but contact with my brother is always deeply, lingeringly awful.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

Notably, the record’s tendency to look at women – lingeringly, lovingly – extended to Marling herself.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2017

The second group, lingeringly cheesed off by the network’s 2009 move to crowd drama out of primetime in favor of Jay Leno, need convincing that NBC is committed to attempting classy, smart work for adults.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2012

He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald