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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

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

He went to the toilet, which is when he saw a flicker of orange through the frosted glass of the window.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 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

There was, it seemed to Taran, a flicker of light.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Despite the presence of mild frost on the part of Mira, whose face intermittently flickers with anxiety, disorientation and more deeply buried feelings, she and Beckett have accepted Edgar’s invitation to stop by.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 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

Then a tiny spark flickers in the center.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

As lights flickered on along the passageways, I followed my guide further inside.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

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

Families, in their various flavors, have been essential to television since that light first flickered on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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

His gaze flickered to me for half a second.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

The young couple in those linked stories are always accompanied by the flickering presence of their social-media apps, which seem to guide their behavior and lead them unthinkingly toward a breakup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

Ivan gawked at the smoke and flickering light on the far side of the cellar, then ran up the steps to join the domovoi.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack