flicker

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

Stopping out of concern, they realize this is no normal accident, seeing the eerie man in the distance who disappears in the flicker of their hazard lights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Catherine Wu, head of product for Claude Code at Anthropic, says the visual flicker was a side effect of a software team moving at a rapid pace, and prioritizing the rollout of new features.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

But in that fraction of a second, past the hard glassiness of his brother’s eyes, he saw something else—a flicker.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Outside of flickers like Carmelo Anthony’s homecoming and Linsanity, Madison Square Garden was funereal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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

There have been flickers of improvement under German Rohl, who has won two of his first five games.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

Even in this abysmal situation, there are flickers of positivity for the Chargers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

The giant’s ankle snared the lines, and blue flickers of electricity shot up his body.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

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

Claude Code was released to the public last year, months after it flickered to life on Cherny’s screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 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

Blinding white lights flickered, giving the audience small flashes of Lady Gaga as she took the 68th Grammy Awards stage Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

Thorn drank from the potion and flickered like a dying image on the telecast before disappearing as well.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

He saw Bori’s flickering silhouette gripping the bars.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

A throbbing orange glow appeared in the corners of my vision, casting flickering shadows across the train car.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros