blink

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

Twenty years later, she says the time between the original and the sequel feels like a blink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Customers are a lot less likely to blink at a $65 duck breast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

Once I jumped through it, I’d end up on the Red Planet in the blink of an eye.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

"We try to make it fun," says Cem Bakiş, head of business development at WaterH, which has a glowing ring that blinks in order to prompt its owner to take a drink.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

“When one blinks, will the rest stop investing in the buildout?”

From MarketWatch ● May 15, 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

In many cases, blinks were treated as unwanted interruptions and removed from the data.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025

We stare at each other, and she blinks, looking away to check the hall for nurses before looking down at the tile floor.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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 party has blinked and thought better of it, for now.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

She blinked at the absurdity of it and glanced at Sue, who looked as stunned as she was.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

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

A dozen members of the French navy scour screens for blinking lights indicating movement thousands of kilometres away near the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

Someone might have blepharospasms, a dystonia affecting the muscles around the eyes, which results in uncontrollable twitching and blinking.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 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

C.C. stared at Duane, this time without blinking.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el