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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

"None of this is beer-proof let alone waterproof," says Prof Damian Bailey, with only the briefest flicker of somebody regretting their life choices.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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

When the other two looked surprised, he added, “Orbs make a different sound when they're close to going out. And they flicker, very faintly. I saw it happen tonight at the Light Market.”

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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

Yet the most exacting enactment of Rosenzweig’s theology was private, where truth flickers in the risky traffic between souls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Board members are betting the company, which has shown flickers of a turnaround, is worth more than the offers on the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

There have been flickers of improvement under German Rohl, who has won two of his first five games.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

He hesitates, a beat of annoyance flickers through his eyes.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

Inexplicably, the lights flickered during the groom-mother dance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

The computer made it to Pixar’s campus, flickered to life and brought Woody and Buzz back from the dead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Black smoke poured from its funnels, and the lights flickered.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis

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

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

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

She was now inches from his face, suddenly solid and barely flickering.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny