flicker
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“There was always a flicker of hope, and I don’t think we ever gave up on that,” says a soft-spoken Green, 43, sitting next to Forte.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
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
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
Mom nods and her eyes flicker to Jonah.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
As Digger and the president peer out a window, a light flickers.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 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
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
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
Ambrose half-turned to look back at me and I saw flickers of amusement play across his face.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Inexplicably, the lights flickered during the groom-mother dance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
They flickered occasionally over McCullum's next three years in charge, but nothing like that heady first year.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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
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
On this night the door had been left ajar, and a soft light flickered from within.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
The Butterfly moved it in a quick arc, and with a speed I wouldn’t have thought possible, that flickering speck of light leaped from that lighter to the wall of the ship’s passageway and ignited.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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