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And to create this air of discomfort, Fennell crafted a movie that darts from hopeful to despairingly bleak in the blink of an eye.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
What were weaknesses then are, in the blink of an eye, strengths now.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
With the blink of an eye, years go by so fast covering high school athletes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
And sometimes maybe that’s all it takes for the world to change, a single blink.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
Meta glasses have a built-in LED light which blinks when they are recording images and cannot be turned off.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“When one blinks, will the rest stop investing in the buildout?”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
Someone inevitably blinks or a background distraction ruins the shot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Both sides understand that Saturday’s matchup may come down to whichever team blinks first in the trenches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
He blinks several times, as though trying to focus on me.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The sun disappeared, the streetlights blinked on, and a shiver passed through the crowd that had nothing to do with the temperature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
It was the U.S Treasury market that blinked first and threatened dysfunction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
If the D&B C-suite had any initial misgivings about putting their chips on raves, no one I spoke to blinked.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
The mood completely shifted and shifted some more when the news came through that Rangers had blinked first in the title race.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
He blinked at the dirt and breathed in construction fumes.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
For me, among so many other things, I enjoy without measure watching great reporters crack their knuckles and create a saga where once stood a blinking cursor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Contacted by AFP, Meta said it has taken multiple steps to prevent tampering with the blinking LED light intended to show other people the device is recording -- a key concern of critics.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
There are a few fun visual gags about the degraded far-future — a hospital named St. God’s, the city’s digital clock tower being stuck on a blinking 12:00 — but its punchlines tend toward nasty.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Back home, those fans who stayed up late - or got up very early - emerged blinking into the early morning sunshine as they reflected on a result which sees Scotland top their group.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
I never knew the night sky could be so amazing—trillions of blinking, sparkling, spinning lights in a velvet-black sky.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
