flurry
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The council, in a flurry of votes, sidelined proposals from Councilmembers Imelda Padilla, Hernandez and Raman that were billed as a way to reduce the risk facing the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
—Eurozone government bond yields fell in opening trade, tracking U.S. peers, ahead of a flurry of key economic data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Then the administration filed a flurry of subpoenas against them.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
The flurry of movement and construction around the site initially gave her hope.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The dove tested its wings with a couple of flaps, then soared away in a blinding flurry of white.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
Still, officials from Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey made flurries of calls, including to Iran’s Araghchi and Trump’s envoy Witkoff to salvage peace efforts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
After White House officials made flurries of calls to both countries, the two reached a cease-fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
In the flurries of media interviews that come with life as an astronaut, he acknowledged the deep responsibility he felt toward the next generations of Black astronauts he hoped to inspire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
In Tokyo, the flowers reached full bloom during the weekend, entering a brief period of stunning beauty, before the petals will fall like flurries of snow.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Every few days snow flurries descended on Lake Washington.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Boston flurried at the end of the half to take a 68-56 lead into halftime.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Sircar called out as doctors and nurses flurried around a 48-year-old man who had been rushed in and intubated in the emergency room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2021
City Council staffers flurried to do the same for their bosses.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2017
In the midst of his flurried activity, I often feared I was underfoot: a hindrance who needed instruction, rather than a helping hand.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
Reed stood at the prow while they flurried around him, with Jigo and the chief mate at his side.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
As Antoshak recalls, it was flurrying — the first snow of the season.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
Long lines of blue-clad fans stood queued up for beers despite an overcast sky and flakes of snow flurrying to the ground.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2018
It is a gem of a work, opening with a fantasia of flurrying 16th notes that echo snowfall.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2017
The wind scattered the flurrying snow above the grave.
From Time Magazine Archive
What if you’re both wrong? she said, her hands flurrying.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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