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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hover .
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Examples
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No one mentions my mother, although her name hovers at the edges of our conversation.
Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003
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Her name hovers on his lips, but then there is an explosion that blinds him—a newspaper photographer, again.
Perfect Match JODI PICOULT 2002
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Her name hovers on his lips, but then there is an explosion that blinds him—a newspaper photographer, again.
Perfect Match JODI PICOULT 2002
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Her name hovers on his lips, but then there is an explosion that blinds him—a newspaper photographer, again.
Perfect Match JODI PICOULT 2002
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The attribution of the title hovers indeterminately between them – which sister is the focus of the narrative?
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Another leader whose name hovers near the top of our list is Maria Shriver.
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Another leader whose name hovers near the top of our list is Maria Shriver.
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"Whites, Coloureds and Indians are less certain they should play this kind of political role, but even so, support for the idea hovers around the 40 percent mark."
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JOHANNESBURG, April 25, Sapa-Reuter Despite repeated efforts to bury it, the emotive "N" word hovers like a vulture over South Africa's historic all-race elections.
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Dove hovers, that is the Spirit of God, the Desire of all Nations.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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