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I started to ask: Should he not blink?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
They can change things in the blink of an eye, so imperceptibly that users will barely notice a change if at all.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
"It was like a blink, and at the same time it was intense, it went so fast," Vaccarello told CNN during an interview to mark his ten years at the brand in May.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
A tiny aquatic organism made of just one cell can compress its body to one quarter of its original length in under five milliseconds, hundreds of times faster than a person can blink.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Ben didn’t blink when I asked about the hospital.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Mark Zuckerberg named mine “Dash,” and whenever I open Muse, the cute little fella blinks at me as he swivels his necklike body part from right to left.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
One of the last things Hal Jordan’s hologram tells John before he blinks out, possibly forever, will define Pierre’s hero moving forward, along with this series, should it earn a second season.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Meta glasses have a built-in LED light which blinks when they are recording images and cannot be turned off.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“When one blinks, will the rest stop investing in the buildout?”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
Harrison looked at me and tried a wink that looked more like a series of really long blinks.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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He owned his portrayal of Gurney Halleck in “Dune” so completely that nobody blinked when he dashed into a battle scene bellowing mightily while clutching a pug, of all things.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
The sun disappeared, the streetlights blinked on, and a shiver passed through the crowd that had nothing to do with the temperature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
It was the U.S Treasury market that blinked first and threatened dysfunction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
When Bean finally told his family he was gay, in 1996 — three years before clueing in an unsuspecting public via a Miami Herald article — none of his loved ones blinked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
I want to go home, Abby thought, but she blinked back her tears, knowing it did no good to cry.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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Shaylee Bent concluded the thumping, ending a move where multiple England tackles were shrugged off without blinking.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
In the arms race for seasonal add-ons, nobody’s blinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Her daughter had asked her to move closer and “without blinking an eye, I said yes. It was a no-brainer. It was logical. It was the best decision ever,” Minken said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
There are a few fun visual gags about the degraded far-future — a hospital named St. God’s, the city’s digital clock tower being stuck on a blinking 12:00 — but its punchlines tend toward nasty.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
I’ve tried blinking my flashlight at Owen at our old meet-up time a few nights.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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