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"remain" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often stay (4 letters).
Definitions
stay the same; remain in a certain state
Word origin
From Middle English remainen, from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remaneō, maneō, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay”).
Used in a sentence
“After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.”
“I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days.”
“Gather up the fragments that remain.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Stay in place”6 letters
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