flicker
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The LCD screens outside the Denver Nuggets basketball arena continue to flicker, although weeds and wolves have overrun the fast-food joints in a bit of postapocalyptic product placement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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
Upstairs, children pore over schoolbooks, mothers prepare lunch and television sets flicker in cramped living rooms, all against the constant background noise of shredders whining and baling presses pounding below.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
The lads barely flinched, only allowing themselves a brief flicker of enjoyment on the second chorus.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
A flicker at first, like before—a faint quiver you’d miss if you blinked.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
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
The robots were flickers, small and getting smaller, in the distance.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
As lights flickered on along the passageways, I followed my guide further inside.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
Kylian Mbappe hovered surreptitiously in the shadows, only noticeable as the lights flickered off the beaming white number 10 on his broad royal blue back.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Families, in their various flavors, have been essential to television since that light first flickered on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Something flickered on the edges of his memory, but he couldn’t quite catch hold of it.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
He saw Bori’s flickering silhouette gripping the bars.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
To McKinnon, it comes down to the “tradition of humans telling a story by flickering light” harking back to prehistoric times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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
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
She was now inches from his face, suddenly solid and barely flickering.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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