glimmer
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But in that 1967 episode, when she was still an unknown, the only glimmer to behold was embroidered on the host’s jacket.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
About a week and a half into her care, she was moved out of the intensive care unit, offering a glimmer of hope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
As the sun sets on the Benfield Hill Nature Reserve, just outside Hove, a distinct green glimmer starts to flicker in the chalk grasslands.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Unfortunately they glimmer only dimly in this staging, which is played to an audience of just 60 seated in rows of chairs in a cleared space on the first floor of the bookstore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
When I came up for air the first time, I could still see a glimmer of light from the boat.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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For those of us who actually do like crepes, though, there are some glimmers of hope.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Beyond Los Angeles, there are glimmers of hope that Californians may be tiring of being taken to the cleaners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
The party is pointing to some glimmers of hope among these election results, including Westminster and holding on to other councils such as Harlow, Broxbourne, Bexley and Fareham.
From BBC ● May 8, 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
But so far today, she’d only ever gotten glimmers of seeing her father as he truly was.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Beats hummed, lights glimmered and about 200 young men and women traded emerald-green tiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Cumberbatch trends drier, but even as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Strange, he glimmered with comedic depths.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
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
High up above the eastern archway through a shaft near the roof came a long pale gleam; and across the hall through the northern arch light also glimmered faint and distantly.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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And while the movie’s legacy looks a little more macabre now, Panettiere and Trachtenberg’s glimmering performances are enough to push through the darkness.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 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
But “Ankhmerwer”—gorgeously inscribed and illustrated and sprinkled with glimmering gold shrines, crowns, birds, gods and sun disks—rewards close looking and empathetic eyes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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
It sat on its haunches and stared at her, in the way the wolves did, its perfect coat glimmering in the moonlight.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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