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
But reconstruction provides a glimmer of hope here, where some residents said it helps them cope with the tragedy they lived through.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
Yet one piece of Stellantis’s struggling business gave a glimmer of hope for Filosa: a partnership with an obscure Chinese automaker called Leapmotor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
A break back gave Raducanu a glimmer of hope and belief started to creep in when she levelled the set at 5-5 with Sierra serving for the match.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
The snowy land was ever so flat and uninspiring and went on forever without a glimmer of adventure beckoning over the horizon.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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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
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
Some glimmers of hope have emerged from what we do know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Leo Tolstoy wrote that there is no happiness in life — only its glimmers.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
The hut had no windows, but a few glimmers of light had shone through the gaps between the thatch and the top of the wall.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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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
Then, as he did throughout the night, Clemons took center stage and wailed on his sax that glimmered in the setting sun.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
A soft star in the distance, it glimmered faintly through the fog, beckoning them on.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
Antonio Obá’s painting of a monk-like horseman at Mendes Wood DM, his copper-hued cloak glimmering under a turquoise sky while his gaze pierces the viewer, is a small master class in paint-handling and color theory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
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
He holds it up as if to inspect it, the shard glimmering in a ray of light...and that’s when I notice what he already has.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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