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  1. lurking

    In Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community who observes, but does not participate. The exact definition depends on context. Lurkers make up a large proportion of all users in online communities. Lurking allows users to learn the conventions of an online community before they participate, improving their socialization when they eventually "de-lurk". However, a lack of social contact while lurking sometimes causes loneliness or apathy among lurkers.Lurkers are referred to using many names, including browsers, read-only participants, non-public participants, legitimate peripheral participants, vicarious learners, or sleepers.

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  1. Lurking

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lurking in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lurking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of lurking in a Sentence

  1. Dennis Potter:

    Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.

  2. Wilfried Mueller:

    The dangers lurking grow more acute as time passes.

  3. Vera Trainer:

    It's just lurking there, it's the longest lasting, highest toxicity and densest bloom that we've ever seen.

  4. James Madison:

    The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.

  5. Steven Spielberg:

    I find it very, very surprising, antisemitism has always been there, it’s either been just around the corner and slightly out of sight but always lurking, or it has been much more overt like in Germany in the ’30s. But not since Germany in the ‘30s have I witnessed antisemitism no longer lurking, but standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler and Mussolini, kind of daring us to defy it. I’ve never experienced this in my entire life, especially in this country.

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