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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
In a blink, she lands on the floor, breathless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
It is a case of "blink, and you'll miss it", the investment bank says.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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
Mama was out first, in her nightgown, running so fast that she was across the garden before Anya could blink.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
“When one blinks, will the rest stop investing in the buildout?”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 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
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
Away from the cameras he is loose and cheerful, but once the red light blinks, the mood changes.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
She blinks blinks blinks before shifting her focus back to the poster on the closet door.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
At 40-30, the trophy in her sights, Rybakina could have blinked.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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
“We’re a cohort of 19, bringing all of our ideas together to create this moment and now it’s just like boom, here we are. You blinked and now you did all of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
It was the U.S Treasury market that blinked first and threatened dysfunction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
When he finally remembered why he was outside, he turned to the egg and blinked in surprise.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
The other day, I found myself looking at a blinking cursor in a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Over the next little while we see eight numbats, including two pairs of babies, blinking at us in the dusky light.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
Installations, complete with blinking lights, video and music, now occupy former intake, surgery and recovery floors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
I never knew the night sky could be so amazing—trillions of blinking, sparkling, spinning lights in a velvet-black sky.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
