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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

He added that Pyongyang's recent flurry of statements only suggested that the South's ongoing efforts to clear landmines inside the DMZ were "proving effective".

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

He told the jury: ''I sent out a flurry of these applications.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But for now, these changes are definitely capturing investors’ attention, evidenced by the flurry of questions about it that Colas says he has received from clients.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

They crowded downstairs in a flurry to hail a whole herd of taxis and head north.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

Mr. Smil also has a gift for helping the reader appreciate these flurries of numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

While the Wimbledon grass often suits 'servebots' - tall players who send down flurries of aces and unreturnable first serves - Fery has needed to use other weapons.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

“I don’t know. I’m just asking. I can’t believe it’s January and we haven’t even had flurries yet.”

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

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

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2017

The churning city of her musical notes flurried into the air.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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

The wind scattered the flurrying snow above the grave.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi


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