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glimmer

[glim-er] / ˈglɪm ər /




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This week, the entertainment business got a glimmer of hope.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

But in that 1967 episode, when she was still an unknown, the only glimmer to behold was embroidered on the host’s jacket.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

This team's efforts have seen them scratched off the international red list of threatened species - a rare glimmer of hope in a country facing an extinction emergency.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Unfortunately they glimmer only dimly in this staging, which is played to an audience of just 60 seated in rows of chairs in a cleared space on the first floor of the bookstore.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Her purple cloak fluttered, revealing the glimmer of her armor.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

For those of us who actually do like crepes, though, there are some glimmers of hope.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

UN chief Antonio Guterres cited "glimmers of hope" for Haiti in a visit Tuesday to the impoverished Caribbean nation long plagued by political, economic and security woes.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

Some glimmers of hope have emerged from what we do know.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

The party is pointing to some glimmers of hope among these election results, including Westminster and holding on to other councils such as Harlow, Broxbourne, Bexley and Fareham.

From BBC May 8, 2026

She’s about twenty years old, dressed in a long, straight wraparound skirt and a puffy white blouse that glimmers in the morning light.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Beats hummed, lights glimmered and about 200 young men and women traded emerald-green tiles.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

The afternoon sun glimmered off the ocean as I drove down MacArthur Boulevard in Newport Beach to fulfill a promise.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2025

In a small village further up the beach, Christmas lights glimmered in the dark.

From BBC Dec. 21, 2023

At night, they glimmered across the water: Twenty-five thousand tiny LEDs, stretching 1.8 miles across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2023

The starched white sleeves of his shirt, rolled up to the elbows, glimmered eerily in the half dark and his tan skin seemed almost black.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

And while the movie’s legacy looks a little more macabre now, Panettiere and Trachtenberg’s glimmering performances are enough to push through the darkness.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

But “Ankhmerwer”—gorgeously inscribed and illustrated and sprinkled with glimmering gold shrines, crowns, birds, gods and sun disks—rewards close looking and empathetic eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

In the closing shot, the words "we belong together" appeared over a sea of bodies dancing beneath glimmering lights at the show.

From BBC Jan. 15, 2026

Antonio Obá’s painting of a monk-like horseman at Mendes Wood DM, his copper-hued cloak glimmering under a turquoise sky while his gaze pierces the viewer, is a small master class in paint-handling and color theory.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

The wolf squinted at the silken band that they held between them, glimmering like a snail’s trail or the moonlight on the waves, and he turned away, uninterested.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman




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