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glitter

[glit-er] / ˈglɪt ər /




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I still find glitter ground into our kitchen tiles from the Halloween when he made his daughter a purple witch costume.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Tiny bits of glitter are embedded in our tiles, a bright reminder of Scott and the beauty and joy he brought to even the most mundane tasks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

How to get the look: Fairycore-inspired make-up is in, which means sparkles, face gems and glitter.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Amazon is now awash with squishy products: There is a cheese squishy, glitter dumpling squishies and even a squishy that resembles a stick of butter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

"Look! There's more glitter on one of the shelves," Nancy cried.

From "Sleepover Sleuths: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #1" by Carolyn Keene

There is also an increasingly heretical chorus of analysts who don’t believe all that glitters is bitcoin.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Called both postmedieval and early modern, the Renaissance glitters as a bridge period that helped bring about the modern age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

All that glitters isn’t gold, but it’s easy to see why investors will continue to take a shine to it—and other metals—even after their historic run.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

The glass panels gleam in the sun, like an outsize version of the prismatic bluish-purple gem that glitters in the light.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024

The snow glitters under an alien sun in a million points of light.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

“I was just completely sucked in, and I was intrigued by the ambition, the characters, which just glittered off the page,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

They glittered in gold platform heels, black and tan powersuits, and fur-lined wool dresses for the winter chill lingering in Washington.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

They also didn’t reinvest farm income or Exxon’s dividends, and they picked another specific date when gold had glittered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

But all that glittered was not gold, as a new podcast series reveals, and questions remain about the mysterious death of the company's chief geologist.

From BBC ● May 18, 2024

There was no moonlight between the trees, but the unicorn glimmered and shone with pale light, like the moon, while the girl herself glittered and glowed as if she trailed a dust of lights.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

And he must keep the gap between glittering promise and inevitably disappointing results to a minimum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

As the band emerged in their trademark high-fashion, glittering outfits, the crowd danced freely, setting the tone for an evening that felt less like a routine tour stop and more like a homecoming.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Mallorca is a tourist paradise, with glittering turquoise seas, hidden coves and endless white-sand beaches that have been luring Europeans for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

As a precision-minded songwriter, she bestowed a kind of emotional dignity on everyday characters in hardscrabble circumstances; as a glittering pop persona, she called constant attention to the artifice of her own A-list stardom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

All those little windows in the French doors allowed the shimmer of moonlight to come in and kiss everything in the room with a glittering silver dust.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall


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