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Recent Examples of lurked
The terrain was steep and mountainous, the forests were thick, and threats from buffalo and leopards lurked in the wilderness.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
For weeks, the New York Ripper case has lurked on the periphery of the series — a boogeyman that the show kept hinting was someone in Dexter’s life.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Parasites lurked inside the fish and turned out to be a new species.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
After the last election, in November 2022, Netanyahu formed a government with the backing of political parties and leaders from the far right, bringing to power forces in Israeli politics that had long lurked on the margins.
—Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
For weeks, the New York Ripper case has lurked on the periphery of the series — a boogeyman that the show kept hinting was someone in Dexter’s life.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Parasites lurked inside the fish and turned out to be a new species.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
After the last election, in November 2022, Netanyahu formed a government with the backing of political parties and leaders from the far right, bringing to power forces in Israeli politics that had long lurked on the margins.
—Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lurked
Verb
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Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
25 Oct. 2025
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When Mumy was just a kid, Lockhart snuck him and his TV sister Cartwright into shows at the Whisky a Go Go during the height of the 1960s psychedelic scene.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The apple-munching Euphoria actor slipped into Tilda Swinton’s plush period dress from the ravishing 1992 drama, joined by Jeff Goldblum, Wicked’s wizard himself, in sparkly Gucci.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
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Shares of Honeywell have slipped 4% this year.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Lurked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lurked. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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