flurry
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Despite a flurry of vague timelines and lofty promises, it doesn’t seem like we’ll be out of the woods any time soon.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
A museum in Reading, west of London, is enjoying a flurry of attention for its little-known Victorian replica of the tapestry.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Pili enjoyed her best spell in the seventh, a quick flurry briefly snapping Taylor's head back, but it did little to alter the direction of the fight.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The ticking clock has set off a planning flurry as advisers help clients minimize the hit from ending deferrals that started as far back as 2018.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
It’s like the bluefin know how tired I am, because they give one last flurry of feeding, making tinker explode in all directions, and then suddenly they’re gone.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
Mr. Smil also has a gift for helping the reader appreciate these flurries of numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
Parts of west Florida reported snow flurries over the weekend, according to the weather services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
After driving west in snow flurries for about an hour, we finally arrive.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
For 27 clubs, that meant an afternoon of flurried activity, with top international prospects officially signing deals that, in many cases, they had effectively been committed to for months, if not years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
Boston flurried at the end of the half to take a 68-56 lead into halftime.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
City Council staffers flurried to do the same for their bosses.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2017
In the midst of his flurried activity, I often feared I was underfoot: a hindrance who needed instruction, rather than a helping hand.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
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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