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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lurk.

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Examples

  • The room of the title lurks at the heart of a mysterious space station built by an unknown intelligence; those unfortunate enough to venture into it disappear, die, or both.

    SF Gospel 2009

  • I am left wondering if heroin lurks in his future.

    Tweak (copy) ____Maggie 2009

  • I am left wondering if heroin lurks in his future.

    Archive 2009-10-01 ____Maggie 2009

  • But where the potential for urban decay really lurks is in the current plan to download welfare and welfare-related costs to municipalities.

    The Megacity Debate 1997

  • A latent Pantheism, in short, lurks in all Gnostic thought, of which there is no trace in primitive Zoroastrianism.

    Christian Doctrine of Sin 1823-1886 1876

  • It's a sure bet that behind the phrase lurks a personality mired in spite and racial and sexual intolerance far more threatening to the national fabric than a few single mums and children of unmarried parents.

    WalesOnline - Home 2009

  • I know that contradiction in terms lurks within much that I have said, but the texture of the world is a warp and woof of contradiction in terms; of continuity in discontinuity, and discontinuity in continuity; of unity in diversity, and of diversity in unity.

    Luck or Cunning? Samuel Butler 1868

  • The stag lurks in the thicket to withdraw from the eyes of the greedy ounce; but towards evening he leaves his hiding place, and sometimes strays beyond the boundary of the forest; he ventures into the maize fields of the plantations, where he tarries until night is far advanced.

    Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

  • For in that phrase lurks a world of revisionism and dissimulation.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert Teitelman 2011

  • It kind of lurks behind me, pushing me not to be an idiot.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

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  • See lurk.

    October 10, 2008