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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

Stopping out of concern, they realize this is no normal accident, seeing the eerie man in the distance who disappears in the flicker of their hazard lights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

The flicker has largely been fixed, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Sitting on the bed, I watched the uneasy flicker of streetlamps dance across the window.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Mounted slightly above head height and illuminated like a shrine, it flickers among Art Deco radio, fierce guardian and modern sculpture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

"No matter how difficult times are, I believe that humans always manage to find flickers of levity and deep wells of love," she said.

From BBC ● May 19, 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

“Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025

The light flickers on as I lock the door behind me.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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 sound of Billie Eilish drifted overhead as candles flickered along every visible surface of Boom, the penthouse lounge crowning the Standard hotel in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 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

Blinding white lights flickered, giving the audience small flashes of Lady Gaga as she took the 68th Grammy Awards stage Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

Her footsteps were swallowed up by the thick carpet as she emerged into the dim lobby, where fake gas lamps flickered in sconces against the wall.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

The world watched as Bad Bunny and his dancers performed on top of utility poles, accompanied by sparks and flickering power lines across the stage.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Build a driveshaft for the second season, which was growing from a flickering hope to an alarming likelihood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker