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
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
The flicker has largely been fixed, she adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
That flicker, that tiny modicum in Kamau’s eyes, was the part of him the hasira leaf’s poison couldn’t reach.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Israel’s battered tourism industry is showing rare flickers of life this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
“Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
He fumbles for the switch on the sconce nearest the door and it flickers to life, illuminating the room in front of him.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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
"Grabham's behaviour in court never changed. He showed absolutely no emotion. Nothing flickered across his face."
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
Flares were let off, ticker tape flickered in the air and a stunning tifo rose from the terraces with an accompanying banner reading "For my town, for my club".
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
It was as though an invisible veil had been lifted, and beneath it a different truth flickered in his friend’s eyes.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Inside, under flickering lights, a group of reluctant strangers is coaxed into acting out, in a converted gymnasium, a wild tale promising redemption from agonizing tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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
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
Some fires are out, others are still steaming, flickering smoke.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Vocabulary lists containing flicker
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