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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

Only then did Rai show a flicker of emotion.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

As it steadily gains steam from its spare opening bars, the number has tornado sirens harmonizing while lives flicker and disappear like sparks flying off a firecracker’s fuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

But that flicker went out when she noticed a video screen in the corner of the room.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

Ama’s gaze flickers to me, her eyes burning.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Kylian Mbappe hovered surreptitiously in the shadows, only noticeable as the lights flickered off the beaming white number 10 on his broad royal blue back.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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

A huge electronic screen flickered with train schedules.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

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

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

About a year ago, a group of us started holding bonfires at dedicated clearings in the woods, nowhere near enough to houses for parents to come nosing around our flickering flames.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith