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lurking
/ ˈɜːɪŋ /
adjective
lingering and persistent, though unsuspected or unacknowledged
a lurking suspicion
dimly perceived
a lurking shape half concealed in the shadows
Example Sentences
Along the coast, a different danger is lurking — a south swell bringing with it elevated surf up to 6 feet high and rip currents.
With mighty Yankee Aaron Judge huffing and puffing at the plate, a lone insistent chant emerged from a Dodger fan lurking in the shadows.
But those complaints, as with all the others, take on a greater urgency while Reform is lurking.
Arthropods ranging from earwigs to some beetles to crickets or spiders living in the soil face particular challenges due to nasty fungal infections and a high risk of predators lurking in leaf litter.
Discussing race and cultural appropriation attracts the predictable insistence that we’re “seeing things,” that the malice we notice lurking behind innocuous-seeming language is imaginary.
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