twinkle

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It’s something that should have come up at your onboarding with the financial planner, even if you signed up with them a long time ago and retirement was only a twinkle in your eye.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

"You're not meant to be laughing, but you can see all your mates trying to make you laugh, and they've got that twinkle in their eye," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The winning stock might not exist yet: Today’s superstars like Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and leading consumer brands like Nike, McDonald’ and Walmart weren’t even a twinkle in their founders’ eyes in 1926.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

But as “Starring Dick Van Dyke” establishes, the agile song-and-dance man with a perpetual twinkle in his eye is much more than that.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

The way Lev's eyes twinkle reminds me of Papa's smiling eyes, Maria's raspy laugh, the harmonies of choir children.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper