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Discover LudwigThe word "hover" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a verb to mean “to remain suspended in the air, typically by the use of wings or buoyancy” (for example, a helicopter hovering in the air) or “to hang over or float near something in a quiet or watchful manner.” For example, "The hovering helicopter made a deafening sound as it passed."
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hover
verb
To float in the air.
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She notices something similar at weddings, where guests hover outside before the service, a little intimidated about entering.
"Critically, the stock of property on the market continues to hover close to historic lows with new instructions to agents falling in 10 of the last 12 months.
She will hover close to defeat, perhaps, before recovering with her trademark sense of dramatic timing to seal her third French title and, in all likelihood, there will be little her very nice Czech opponent can do about it except swat at howitzers from hand and off the ground.
If you hover over the picture, a star and a pencil appear in the top right.
He said Labour espoused "tax breaks for a favoured few", subsidies to the energy companies, bailouts for bankers and allowed corporate lobbyists to "hover around the party like flies".
Singer and guitarist Tom Smith's sage-but-nervous tones hover between those of Ian Curtis and Echo and the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch, intoning oblique lyrics that double as kiss-offs and riddles.
And our hover boards, goddammit.
As a result blimps, adjusted to hover at appropriate heights, are often used to relay data to and from satellites.As politicians around the world seek to cut public spending, the attractions of blimps are growing.
That is where the shrinks come in: they would hover around trading desks, asking the moneymen, "What was going through your head when you struck that deal?"When Barack Obama announced his government's intention to draw up a Volcker rule, almost four years ago, he described it as a "simple and common-sense reform" that would "strengthen the financial system".
In the gloomiest of the three, the oil price was projected to hover at around $40 a barrel throughout 2005 enough, the bank predicted, to knock over two percentage points off the growth rate in several countries.
Then he was borne out of the church, his white skull-cap bobbing through the crowd, his hands raised in blessing, his feet seeming to hover over, rather than touch, the ground, until he reached the shelter of his car and the safety of the apostolic delegation.
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