glimmer
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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
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
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
But Swan offered a glimmer of hope for British interest with a clinical serving performance on Court 16 that saw her win 88% of first-serve points.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Before they can read their school primers, watermen learn how to read the sky and to head for the safety of a cove at the first glimmer of trouble.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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Even with higher borrowing costs in the near term, there are some glimmers of improved affordability for home buyers.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 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
Even as graduate hiring shows early glimmers of a rebound, summer internship opportunities appear to be getting scarcer—while competition for them only gets more intense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
There are glimmers of light in the sky as the sun gets set to rise, the road pointing right toward it, the river, too, rushing toward the dawn.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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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
In a small village further up the beach, Christmas lights glimmered in the dark.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
Cameras and cellphones focused on the Colorado quarterback, whose thick diamond-encrusted chain adorned with his No. 2 jersey number glimmered as the sun rose over the east side of Folsom Field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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
And Jack saw that the creatures pulling the sleigh were not winged horses at all, but a pack of horse-size white wolves with fur that glimmered in the moonlight.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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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
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
In the deep hole below the door Bod could see stars, a darkness filled with glimmering lights.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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