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Their pages don’t flicker with pop-up ads or interrupt one book to tell you about others you might want to read.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Nevertheless, Europe is benefiting from a flicker of activity in the defence sector, notably with the stock market debut in Amsterdam of Czech arms giant CSG, at $4.47 billion, the third-largest deal worldwide since January.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

He went to the toilet, which is when he saw a flicker of orange through the frosted glass of the window.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Stopping out of concern, they realize this is no normal accident, seeing the eerie man in the distance who disappears in the flicker of their hazard lights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

“Can’t talk, Anthony!” he said, glancing back just long enough to see Anthony flicker in and out of view, less than six inches from his face.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Israel’s battered tourism industry is showing rare flickers of life this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

On the corner of another table, the flame from a candle flickers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

"No matter how difficult times are, I believe that humans always manage to find flickers of levity and deep wells of love," she said.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Inside an underground shelter at a hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa, a television screen flickers with images of Iranian missiles as doctors and midwives deliver Sarah Bird's third child.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Speaking in short, matter-of-fact phrases, they worry aloud over the fickle weather and fields of sunflowers still too wet to cut, while above their heads Ross Perot’s sneering visage flickers across a silent television screen.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

A lit candle flickered among the flowers, where a teddy bear was also perched.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

In one recording of a WhatsApp video call seen by AFP, the scammer, appearing lifelike as the prince, flickered on the screen.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

The sound of Billie Eilish drifted overhead as candles flickered along every visible surface of Boom, the penthouse lounge crowning the Standard hotel in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

But many of those spectators were cast into darkness for four or five minutes early on until someone put some change in the meter, the scoring screens flickered back into life and play resumed.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

It was as though an invisible veil had been lifted, and beneath it a different truth flickered in his friend’s eyes.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

The world watched as Bad Bunny and his dancers performed on top of utility poles, accompanied by sparks and flickering power lines across the stage.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Build a driveshaft for the second season, which was growing from a flickering hope to an alarming likelihood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

I say, stepping back to study the flickering orange faces.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish