flickering
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However, Gauff raised her hand to halt play because of a flickering light in the side panels surrounding the court.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
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
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
A flickering shadow caught my eye and I froze mid-laugh.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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