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flurry

[flur-ee, fluhr-ee] / ˈflɜr i, ˈflʌr i /




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Doncic capped the half with a flurry on both ends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Courts have, at times, struggled to keep up with the flurry of litigation over the plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, a growing number of more speculative products have helped to inspire a flurry of new ETF launches.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

Following a flurry of legal filings by Pike's lawyers that delayed the start of the execution by several hours, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday night cleared the way for the punishment to go ahead.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Nathan was expecting a flurry of flies to harass his face but was surprised when he opened the door to the outhouse.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

There will be occasional flurries of action and tense situations, but it’s a leisurely watch — though not slow, in the pejorative sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

In Tokyo, the flowers reached full bloom during the weekend, entering a brief period of stunning beauty, before the petals will fall like flurries of snow.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

Nano Banana Pro produced the most real-looking outfit and flurries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

While Friday was originally set as the opening date of the Heavenly and Northstar ski resorts in the Lake Tahoe area, officials said mild weather and stubbornly insufficient flurries have delayed those plans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025

When it came down to more food or heat, the cold weather made Jay choose heat—we’re supposed to get snow flurries next week.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

But instead of gangsters and cocaine, it finds a flurried momentum in one ordinary woman’s everyday obligations, which threaten to break her when a nationwide strike throws her tenuous act off balance.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Boston flurried at the end of the half to take a 68-56 lead into halftime.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

Sircar called out as doctors and nurses flurried around a 48-year-old man who had been rushed in and intubated in the emergency room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2021

City Council staffers flurried to do the same for their bosses.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2017

It flurried around her like snowflakes as she flipped pages, but the words were in some strange alphabet and she couldn’t read them.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

As Antoshak recalls, it was flurrying — the first snow of the season.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022

Long lines of blue-clad fans stood queued up for beers despite an overcast sky and flakes of snow flurrying to the ground.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2018

It is a gem of a work, opening with a fantasia of flurrying 16th notes that echo snowfall.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2017

That evening, the Humphreys drove through flurrying snow to his headquarters in Minneapolis.

From Time Magazine Archive

What if you’re both wrong? she said, her hands flurrying.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi


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