- present participle of shimmer.
shimmering
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“There’s some point in which memories become dreams,” Cooks said of the forms that gradually cohere, shimmering, like film in a developing tray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Libyan designer Rabia Ben Barka, whose models showed off similarly shimmering dresses, told AFP she found Abuja -- on her first trip to Nigeria -- "so clean" and organised.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Inspired by Talking Heads and Grace Jones, it's a record whose shimmering surfaces disguise lyrics of deep emotional complexity.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Has Federer ever chucked an unreliable 7-iron into a shimmering Swiss lake?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
As Fox moved around the kitchen, the moonlight hit her pendant and seemed to adorn everything around her with shimmering stars.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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