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With the blink of an eye, years go by so fast covering high school athletes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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
“Everyone thinks it’s going to slow down, where they’re looking for the first company to blink on capex expectations,” said Wagner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
Though I didn’t mean to blink until Beatrice and Louise were back, I dozed off and dreamed that I’d missed the railing and was feeding myself to the fishes.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
“When one blinks, will the rest stop investing in the buildout?”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
They have become accustomed to rising from bed whenever the electricity blinks on, no matter the hour, to cook and do laundry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
A sign reading “Where Vietnamese coffee talks…” blinks overhead in the alley leading to this speakeasy-like cafe in the Old Quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
In many cases, blinks were treated as unwanted interruptions and removed from the data.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
The Obayifo blinks out of the air once more and plummets to the ground.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
The mood completely shifted and shifted some more when the news came through that Rangers had blinked first in the title race.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
The second sister blinked and came to me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
Fans filed into pubs and clubs ahead of the 02:00 BST kick-off and emerged blinking in the dawn light.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Installations, complete with blinking lights, video and music, now occupy former intake, surgery and recovery floors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
A dozen members of the French navy scour screens for blinking lights indicating movement thousands of kilometres away near the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
She was blinking so much that Nathan wondered if she was trying not to cry.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
