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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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lurking in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lurking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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The raw ingredients for a zoonotic virus with pandemic potential are still lurking in the wild.
The world that we live in ... is a place where all parents have to be vigilant because of the dangers that are lurking.
It was wild that we'd had a lesson about predators lurking in the shadows.
That flocking and uniting and lighting up for the ‘[Trump] train’ I think is at least on hiatus and it makes some of those who got on the ‘train’ thinking twice, that, I think, is the lurking danger because unless he can unite the rest of the party and can get at least a kind of neutrality out of other leading Republicans, it's going to be hard.
The dangers lurking grow more acute as time passes.
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