lurker
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Digital Technology. a person who reads or listens in on an online conversation without taking part.
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a person who lurks, lying in wait or moving around stealthily in a place.
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Other Spirit winners on Sunday included "Lurker," for best first screenplay and best first feature film.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
Madekwe is nominated off the back of his role in Lurker, a psychological thriller in which he plays an up-and-coming pop star who is blackmailed by a superfan.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
They are joined by three Brits - Robert Aramayo, who starred in I Swear; Archie Madekwe, who appeared in Lurker; and Posy Sterling, from films including Lollipop.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
The story that Hitler had dictated, not written, his book was first told by Otto Lurker, one of the prison guards, in a short memoir called “Hitler behind the Fotress: An Image of Cloudy Days.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2016
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