flicker
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Their pages don’t flicker with pop-up ads or interrupt one book to tell you about others you might want to read.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Upstairs, children pore over schoolbooks, mothers prepare lunch and television sets flicker in cramped living rooms, all against the constant background noise of shredders whining and baling presses pounding below.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
The coffees and lunches and dinners of that season flicker in my mind like a rom-com video montage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Only then did Rai show a flicker of emotion.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
A flicker of appreciation ignited across my chest, yet oddly the spark fizzled out.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
"No matter how difficult times are, I believe that humans always manage to find flickers of levity and deep wells of love," she said.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
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
Yet the most exacting enactment of Rosenzweig’s theology was private, where truth flickers in the risky traffic between souls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
“Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
Mitch in his costume flickers in my memory.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
A lit candle flickered among the flowers, where a teddy bear was also perched.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
"Grabham's behaviour in court never changed. He showed absolutely no emotion. Nothing flickered across his face."
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
She laughed—a sound I’d heard too few times lately—then a frown of pain flickered across her face.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Thankfully, there are often other cues as to the whereabouts of your fleshy foes, such as flickering lights and their awful, gurgling cries.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“The flickering dream that there’s still a human role in mathematics isn’t completely killed off by this,” Timothy Gowers told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
He saw Bori’s flickering silhouette gripping the bars.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
To McKinnon, it comes down to the “tradition of humans telling a story by flickering light” harking back to prehistoric times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
They remained always out of bow shot, but Taran caught sight of the lean, gray shapes flickering in and out of the scrubby trees.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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