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"It's been a home for four years of our lives and it's gone in the blink of an eye," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The semiconductor industry so critical to artificial-intelligence systems didn’t even blink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Certainly not from the game itself; basketball moves fast, and a bummer can become a bust in a blink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
It's something many of us have experienced: You go on your phone to check something and - in the blink of an eye - you've been scrolling for an hour.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Tears are piling up behind my eyes so hard, I blink and look away.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
“When one blinks, will the rest stop investing in the buildout?”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
It's who blinks first or last wins or loses, and that's what you want to watch.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
They have become accustomed to rising from bed whenever the electricity blinks on, no matter the hour, to cook and do laundry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
Researchers also observed additional disruptions in eye turning during accommodation and reduced effectiveness of eye blinks in triggering pupil constriction in myopic eyes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026
Feathers blinks slowly, like this whole thing bores her.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
It was the U.S Treasury market that blinked first and threatened dysfunction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
If the D&B C-suite had any initial misgivings about putting their chips on raves, no one I spoke to blinked.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
When Bean finally told his family he was gay, in 1996 — three years before clueing in an unsuspecting public via a Miami Herald article — none of his loved ones blinked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
The exchanges continued to be intense as the set entered the business end, but Djokovic blinked first.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
A woman took off her goggles and blinked in Coal’s direction.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Robert "Madyar" Brovdi's underground command post features walls of blinking screens playing footage of Ukrainian drones attacking Russian troops, frontline maps, and scoreboards of destroyed targets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Installations, complete with blinking lights, video and music, now occupy former intake, surgery and recovery floors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
But instead of fighting, both sides have doubled down on dueling blockades that are hard to undo without one side blinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Following more than 300 hours of searching, divers finally spotted the blinking of the miner's torch light, which Zapata had turned on and off to alert them to his location.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
Her eyes were moist, and she was blinking rapidly.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
