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Each day, there was a little flurry of figuring out who had come to watch.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Following the departure of LeBron James, who has yet to reveal his next destination, the Lakers retooled the roster in an offseason transaction flurry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He ends his book with a flurry of rhetorical questions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Argentina trailed Egypt 2-0 in the 79th minute before a flurry of three goals in 13 minutes—with Messi in the middle of it all—saw them scrap through once again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Her mind was a flurry of worries, each one piling on top of the next.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Still, officials from Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey made flurries of calls, including to Iran’s Araghchi and Trump’s envoy Witkoff to salvage peace efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

In the flurries of media interviews that come with life as an astronaut, he acknowledged the deep responsibility he felt toward the next generations of Black astronauts he hoped to inspire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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

Fast-moving hail showers are possible almost anywhere and brief flurries of wet snow are not out of the question, even in the south.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

Over the next several days, temperatures dropped into the teens, snow flurries turned into light snowstorms, which in turn became full-scale blizzards.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The brushstrokes are a whirlwind of eloquent smudges and slashes, suggesting that the picture was completed in a few flurried minutes.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

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

Ola Monsieur Farival, flurried, curious, stood up, but upon seeing that Robert had followed Mrs. Pontellier, he sank back into his seat.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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