glimmer
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Monday’s report had another glimmer of good news: Delinquency rates appear to be stabilizing, and fewer accounts are paying just the bare minimum.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Gil remembers, smiling, that at that moment he thought, "Oh my God, there's a step. There's a glimmer of hope."
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
News crews, Venezuelan officials and nearby residents were drawn to a remarkable scene that offered a glimmer of hope amid the country’s otherwise dystopian tableau.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
Thomas E. Franklin’s “Raising the Flag at Ground Zero,” taken only hours after the twin towers had collapsed, provided a glimmer of hope among the wreckage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
In a glimmer of light, a motherly woman showed herself.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
"We have seen one or two weaknesses, glimmers, no more than that," said Nevin.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
UN chief Antonio Guterres cited "glimmers of hope" for Haiti in a visit Tuesday to the impoverished Caribbean nation long plagued by political, economic and security woes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Leo Tolstoy wrote that there is no happiness in life — only its glimmers.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
This “Farm” isn’t lacking for good intentions and, in spots, as with Woody Harrelson’s fine casting as the naïve, loyal horse Boxer, one can see glimmers of what a good adaptation might have been.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
It glimmers in the last light like an oversize jewel.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Beats hummed, lights glimmered and about 200 young men and women traded emerald-green tiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The air was calm and boats glimmered far off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
In a small village further up the beach, Christmas lights glimmered in the dark.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
At night, they glimmered across the water: Twenty-five thousand tiny LEDs, stretching 1.8 miles across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
Ruby’s eyes glimmered red, and the corners of her lips curled up, feline.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Despite the glimmering signs of stress on the domestic front, Chinese leaders recently signalled they have no intention of rolling out any major policy easing in the near term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Alongside the spectacle of execution and the glimmering blood, Mary, John, St. Dominic and others beside Christ in many of these frescos cover their faces or turn away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
In the closing shot, the words "we belong together" appeared over a sea of bodies dancing beneath glimmering lights at the show.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
His journey had led him to the island of Koh Samui and into the open-air lobby of the Four Seasons Resort, overlooking lush mountains, glimmering ocean and $9,000-a-night villas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Rivers running bright and blue below, glimmering in the sun.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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