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“I don’t mandate it. With Justin, I really just showed him where I thought it would be advantageous, and he didn’t blink for a second and was excited to attack it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Twenty years later, she says the time between the original and the sequel feels like a blink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
It's something many of us have experienced: You go on your phone to check something and - in the blink of an eye - you've been scrolling for an hour.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
With his foot to the floor, Rosenqvist edged his car in front and took the checkered flag by just 0.02 seconds, barely the blink of an eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
He blinked a slow blink, and when he opened his eyes, he seemed to be looking beyond us, to a land we couldn’t see...a new world to explore.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
"We try to make it fun," says Cem Bakiş, head of business development at WaterH, which has a glowing ring that blinks in order to prompt its owner to take a drink.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
“When one blinks, will the rest stop investing in the buildout?”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
“He could break down a play, like, ‘If you steer him left he’ll only drive 16% of the time, if he blinks twice he’s shooting,’” Myers said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Researchers also observed additional disruptions in eye turning during accommodation and reduced effectiveness of eye blinks in triggering pupil constriction in myopic eyes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026
It’s not until she finally blinks that I can move again.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
In the back-and-forth fourth quarter, the Lakers blinked first as Doncic missed a go-ahead jumper with 12 seconds left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City have blinked first in the Premier League title run-in as they stumbled to a draw against Nottingham Forest.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
He blinked at the screen, waiting for the transfer to start again.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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
She finally made it to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage in 2019 - 14 years later than planned - blinking back the tears with a decades-spanning greatest hits set that became the festival's most-watched performance ever.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Before one of Orion’s in-space maneuvers, crew members reported a problem with the toilet, indicated by a blinking fault light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
In that moment of blinking, the whole system kind of said, Wait a minute, maybe this guy doesn’t have all of this power.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
Seven could almost imagine hundreds of blinking red eyes staring back at them from the darkness.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
