blink
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"I predict a brutal Joshua win, early. It won't go past three rounds. Do not blink."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Everyone thinks it’s going to slow down, where they’re looking for the first company to blink on capex expectations,” said Wagner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But it also means it likely won’t be the first company to blink on AI spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“They were waiting for us to blink and we didn’t,” said Douglas Saeltzer, the head of the Consumer Attorneys of California, the lawyer trade group that pushed for the measure against Uber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
In the blink of an eye, everything had changed.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
“When one blinks, will the rest stop investing in the buildout?”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
It's who blinks first or last wins or loses, and that's what you want to watch.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
"For instance, is there a strategic timing of a person's blinks so they would not miss out on what is being said?"
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
Just don’t be surprised when you start to miss the imperfect ones, blinks, bad moods and all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
The Obayifo blinks out of the air once more and plummets to the ground.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
They hardly blinked at France's comeback, hitting them with a second try of their own just before the half-hour.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
The kids took to TikTok and Instagram to dissect every awful thing Banks and the rest did in the name of goosing ratings, with many wondering why its audience barely blinked at its endless exploitation.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
Jonah blinked and stared and stammered, “But—but—” and then he at least had the sense to shut his mouth, because the librarian was looking at him oddly.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Robert "Madyar" Brovdi's underground command post features walls of blinking screens playing footage of Ukrainian drones attacking Russian troops, frontline maps, and scoreboards of destroyed targets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Installations, complete with blinking lights, video and music, now occupy former intake, surgery and recovery floors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Someone might have blepharospasms, a dystonia affecting the muscles around the eyes, which results in uncontrollable twitching and blinking.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
The devotion is well-earned: Smith can quote Jefferson verbatim and cites Seneca and Enlightenment philosophers without blinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
“Fern, I wanted to—” She stops near the stairs and looks around, blinking.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
