loiters

verb

present tense third-person singular of loiter
as in lingers
to move or act slowly don't loiter in this neighborhood after dark

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loiters
  1. lingers
  2. drags
  3. crawls
  4. delays
  5. pokes
Verb
  • The math turns against you the moment a balance lingers, though.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • The sisters have reportedly made efforts to remain active within the royal family, but a sense of distance lingers.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 25 June 2026
Definition of lingers
Verb
  • Stanford research on more than 100,000 developers found that teams often feel quicker with AI early on, while at the same time racking up technical debt that drags on them later.
    — Neo Lee, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Frieson then appears, drags her by the arm, and closes the door.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
Definition of drags
Verb
  • Seltz’s system crawls hundreds of millions of pages a day, and returns results in under 200 milliseconds.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • At sunset, the city starts glowing around you while traffic crawls silently below.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
Definition of crawls
Verb
  • As such, Propco must reapply for permits before resuming construction, which delays the project’s completion until the middle of 2027, according to the documents.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2026
  • The deal also delays the elimination of dental help for undocumented adults a year later than Newsom proposed.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of delays
Verb
  • The second is a vent which pokes out above your clothes, to move warm air away from you.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Perched on a finger of land that pokes into Lebanon, Metula is usually crowded with tourists this time of year.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Definition of pokes
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“Loiters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loiters. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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