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
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
Serving that theme means not adding scintillating fictional details just to scintillate and, more importantly, not perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019
But it's not just dark-matter particles that cause argon to scintillate like this, so we have to minimize interference.
From Nature • Sep. 27, 2016
The rays of the sun, striking on them, made them scintillate in the midst of the black wooden crosses.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave
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