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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

The lads barely flinched, only allowing themselves a brief flicker of enjoyment on the second chorus.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

The coffees and lunches and dinners of that season flicker in my mind like a rom-com video montage.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

I’ve touched other Remarkables’ hands before and never made their Glow flicker.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people’s eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Inexplicably, the lights flickered during the groom-mother dance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

They flickered occasionally over McCullum's next three years in charge, but nothing like that heady first year.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

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

The shadows from their leaves flickered on the walls, and the metal hose of the sprayer head on its stand glinted near my shoes.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

The room was dark except for the flickering light of a candle on the corner table.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis