flicker
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He went to the toilet, which is when he saw a flicker of orange through the frosted glass of the window.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
As it steadily gains steam from its spare opening bars, the number has tornado sirens harmonizing while lives flicker and disappear like sparks flying off a firecracker’s fuse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
With her sharp features, geometric haircut and form-fitting black ensembles, she’s a Bond villain minus the martial arts skills — icy but with a flicker of feeling, which makes her interesting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
"As the visible light began to flicker and dim, the infrared light spiked. Which could mean that the material blocking the star is hot -- so hot that it's glowing in the infrared."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
A flicker of the setting sun appears through the leaves of the trees behind us.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Inside an underground shelter at a hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa, a television screen flickers with images of Iranian missiles as doctors and midwives deliver Sarah Bird's third child.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Ms. Ziegler’s sardonic humor flickers or flares in virtually every scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
There have been flickers of improvement under German Rohl, who has won two of his first five games.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
“Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
In the corner of the ghost wagon, something flickers, dark and creeping.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
In one recording of a WhatsApp video call seen by AFP, the scammer, appearing lifelike as the prince, flickered on the screen.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The computer made it to Pixar’s campus, flickered to life and brought Woody and Buzz back from the dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
But many of those spectators were cast into darkness for four or five minutes early on until someone put some change in the meter, the scoring screens flickered back into life and play resumed.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
He also flickered in knocks of 18 and 36 in Hobart.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
She leaned over and pushed a button on her desk and the entire wall behind her flickered to life.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
The world watched as Bad Bunny and his dancers performed on top of utility poles, accompanied by sparks and flickering power lines across the stage.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Build a driveshaft for the second season, which was growing from a flickering hope to an alarming likelihood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
A flickering hologram of a Black woman has appeared.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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