flicker
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“There was always a flicker of hope, and I don’t think we ever gave up on that,” says a soft-spoken Green, 43, sitting next to Forte.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Their pages don’t flicker with pop-up ads or interrupt one book to tell you about others you might want to read.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Nevertheless, Europe is benefiting from a flicker of activity in the defence sector, notably with the stock market debut in Amsterdam of Czech arms giant CSG, at $4.47 billion, the third-largest deal worldwide since January.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The lads barely flinched, only allowing themselves a brief flicker of enjoyment on the second chorus.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Clare thumbed her necklace, the flicker of it making her pale skin almost glow.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Outside of flickers like Carmelo Anthony’s homecoming and Linsanity, Madison Square Garden was funereal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Inside an underground shelter at a hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa, a television screen flickers with images of Iranian missiles as doctors and midwives deliver Sarah Bird's third child.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
There have been flickers of improvement under German Rohl, who has won two of his first five games.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
“Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
Just as he flickers away, Mom leans over and leaves a lipstick kiss on the glass.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
In one recording of a WhatsApp video call seen by AFP, the scammer, appearing lifelike as the prince, flickered on the screen.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The computer made it to Pixar’s campus, flickered to life and brought Woody and Buzz back from the dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
But many of those spectators were cast into darkness for four or five minutes early on until someone put some change in the meter, the scoring screens flickered back into life and play resumed.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
He also flickered in knocks of 18 and 36 in Hobart.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
It was as though an invisible veil had been lifted, and beneath it a different truth flickered in his friend’s eyes.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
“The flickering dream that there’s still a human role in mathematics isn’t completely killed off by this,” Timothy Gowers told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
He saw Bori’s flickering silhouette gripping the bars.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Refn is so enraptured by the sight of strobes flickering across Thatcher’s mannequin-flawless features that, by the end of the film, I needed a break from her face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Something kept crawling over her body, flickering its antennae as it puzzled over the addition to its home.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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