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lin·gers

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lingers in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lingers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of lingers in a Sentence

  1. Homer, The Iliad:

    Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

  2. Tim Ripley:

    Poland has been let down by its allies in the past, the suspicion still lingers in the minds of Poles.

  3. Gernot Erler:

    The question lingers: what do we recognize as fact? Is it what Tillerson says, what the president says or what (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) Nikki Haley says? we have so many voices and they all sound different.

  4. David Barker:

    I would say that as long as COVID lingers on and people’s lives are being disrupted by it, that Biden’s approval will continue to take a hit, and it will get worse over time. So if omicron turns out to transmit more rapidly and severely than Delta did — and especially if it resists the vaccines — Biden’s numbers will sink lower and lower.

  5. RJ Intindola:

    There are two types of scars; those that are visible and those that are not. Both indicate that you been hurt but only the external scars will show if you been healed. No one can see the scars inside us or if our injury still lingers.

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