blink
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In a blink, she lands on the floor, breathless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
But it is significant "if we can reduce the number of incidents, even by a little, where people lose their lives in the blink of an eye".
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
But it also means it likely won’t be the first company to blink on AI spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In the vast stretch of world history, 250 years is a blip, a flash, a blink of the eye.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
But—and here was the start of a great mystery—the market didn’t so much as blink.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
"For instance, is there a strategic timing of a person's blinks so they would not miss out on what is being said?"
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
No one blinks at Karol G headlining the world’s biggest festivals singing entirely in Spanish, drinking deeply from Latin music history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
He blinks and looks down at his hands in his lap.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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
If the D&B C-suite had any initial misgivings about putting their chips on raves, no one I spoke to blinked.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
As I lay on the living room floor in pain, he flopped beside me and blinked slowly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
She blinked as if a gnat was hovering too near her eye.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Robert "Madyar" Brovdi's underground command post features walls of blinking screens playing footage of Ukrainian drones attacking Russian troops, frontline maps, and scoreboards of destroyed targets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
But instead of fighting, both sides have doubled down on dueling blockades that are hard to undo without one side blinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Someone might have blepharospasms, a dystonia affecting the muscles around the eyes, which results in uncontrollable twitching and blinking.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
Following more than 300 hours of searching, divers finally spotted the blinking of the miner's torch light, which Zapata had turned on and off to alert them to his location.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
A white family emerged blinking from a sixth-floor condo.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
