scintillate
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Liverpool certainly didn't scintillate with their display in the Midlands but they showed the resilience of champions.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
“Sky Islands” evokes the magical Philippines upper rainforests, where sounds scintillate in a thinned atmosphere that gives gongs new glories, where animals capable of great ascension exclusively live, where the mind is ready for enlightenment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
Space telescopes see the universe undistorted by Earth’s atmosphere, whose shifting air causes stars to scintillate, or twinkle, and whose gas molecules block many wavelengths entirely, including much of the infrared.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2022
Its luminous blue twilight sky and inky shadows scintillate while New Yorkers with little skull faces go about their business.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2021
Still, it cannot but be that some gems shall scintillate more than others, or, at all events, be of coarser and duller water.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
Kevin De Bruyne scintillated throughout, with Riyad Mahrez closely behind.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2019
The American consumer world is thrilled into electric activity, the rubbish scintillated and redeemed.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
The Dutch midfielder’s added-time header came as City scintillated before the break and seriously ran out of gas after it.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016
It was as large as half a mat; it was multicolored, and it scintillated.
From Time Magazine Archive
What struggle there was in him between Nature and Grace in this interval, I cannot tell: only singular gleams scintillated in his eyes, and strange shadows passed over his face.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Leo Tolstoy, notoriously parsimonious in his praise of fellow scribblers, said that he had never met anyone with “so rare a combination of scintillating depth and brilliance” as Herzen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Probably most impressive, a category closely followed by economists known as real final sales rose at a scintillating 3.9% annual pace — the highest reading in more than three years.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Maintaining a scintillating level, Sinner held off Djokovic to hold for a 3-1 lead before winning eight unanswered points across his final two service games.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Ben Duckett's scintillating century built on an inspirational bowling spell from Ben Stokes to haul England back into the decisive third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
We entered a school of fish, their scales patterned with scintillating colors as they investigated us.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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