lingerer

linger | American Dictionary

linger
verb[ I ]
us/ˈlɪŋ·ɡər/
to take longer than usual to leave or disappear:
We went to small cafes where we could linger over cappuccino.
The smell lingered in the kitchen for days.

lingering

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˈlɪŋ·ɡər·ɪŋ/
She has lingering doubts about his ability to do the job.

Examples of linger

linger
The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that weaknesses in specific phonemic representations linger even after children can articulate the specific phonemes accurately.
Another lingering dilemma is how to understand the use of electronic aids in independent reading.
Such "curious" cases, symbolic of clinical medicine's incomplete professionalization and lingering allegiance to an older, more openly-subjective medical culture, are in fact not uncommon.
Silently, they repudiated humanity's lingering claims to special privilege inside a universe no longer ordered by theology.
Yet the compassion and good humor with which it occurred lingered long past the event.
But it did not entirely disappear, lingering implicitly in the word 'kinship'.
Is there lingering concern associated with the innocent murmur?
She herself came to regret the volume, but could not shake off the lingering aura of its success.
There have been a few reports of patients who have survived bilateral lesions of the pons with few lingering complications.
Having said this, questions do linger unanswered about the real degree of autonomy of these women's actions and of their organisations.
The owner/resident was arguably not harmed or harmed only psychically by the ten minutes of shock and the lingering emotional aftereffects.
Like non-war neurasthenia, wartime cases of psychological disturbance lingered because of weak will or a tendency to morbid introspection.
It is proposed that these weakened representations may linger after articulation has normalized, undermining phonemic sensitivity and hence reading acquisition in the early school years.
What is embodied "presence" for him ultimately becomes a lingering "absence" for her.
It was no place to linger, and they turned for home.
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