flicker
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Late in the third quarter, San Clemente attempted a flea flicker and San Juan Hills was on James the second he got the ball back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Possible precedents flicker: Maya hieroglyphs, Buddhist mandalas, Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts, Bosch, Gauguin, feathered Trinidadian carnival masks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
Nevertheless, Europe is benefiting from a flicker of activity in the defence sector, notably with the stock market debut in Amsterdam of Czech arms giant CSG, at $4.47 billion, the third-largest deal worldwide since January.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
I swear I see the flash of the thunder flicker through my closed eyelids.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
Despite my mind’s desolation, reason’s light still flickers there.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
The neon kangaroo flickered, releasing a rhythmic, neon buzz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
As the lights flickered back on, baptism in blackout over, one attendee quipped that the show was now, officially, "very authentic".
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
They flickered occasionally over McCullum's next three years in charge, but nothing like that heady first year.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The sound of Billie Eilish drifted overhead as candles flickered along every visible surface of Boom, the penthouse lounge crowning the Standard hotel in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
They flickered from purple to orange as if the colors were fighting for dominance.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
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
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 flickering hologram of a Black woman has appeared.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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