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"The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it" "He remained unmoved by her tears"verbstay the same; remain in a certain statetype of:
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"despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"verbcontinue in a place, position, or situationtype of:
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"The hostility remained long after they made up"verbstay behind
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"There remains the question of who pulled the trigger" "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"verbbe left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.type of:
Examples of remain
- "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"
- "He remained unmoved by her tears"
- "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"
- "The hostility remained long after they made up"
- "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"
- "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"