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    • remain :stay the same; remain in a certain state
      • The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it|rest assured|stay alone|He remained unmoved by her tears|The bad weather continued for another week

    • remain :continue in a place, position, or situation
      • After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser|Stay with me, please|despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year|She continued as deputy mayor for another year

    • remain :be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
      • 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

    • remain :stay behind
      • The smell stayed in the room|The hostility remained long after they made up

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