Definition of "hovers" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hover. (verb)

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• "No one mentions my mother, although her name hovers at the edges of our conversation."
• "Her name hovers on his lips, but then there is an explosion that blinds him—a newspaper photographer, again."
• "The attribution of the title hovers indeterminately between them – which sister is the focus of the narrative?"