flare
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For several months, the flare became brighter in ultraviolet light than the entire galaxy surrounding it.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
A drag queen would cut through the room like a flare.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
During the introductory period, queues started to flare up at certain airports at busy times.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
It was three days after a stranded mariner’s emergency flare apparently sent flames raging through the south end of Channel Islands National Park’s second-largest island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
“Look here. There’s the Welch Airport, just beside Davy Mountain. This must be a flare dropped from an airplane!”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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It’s been another choppy week in markets, featuring a rebound in the artificial-intelligence trade, highly divergent share-price reactions to big tech earnings, and more volatility in oil as the U.S.-Iran war flares up again.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
He was met with a crowd of supporters carrying flares and banners as he left the French Football Federation's headquarters on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Smith has started and re-started baseball activities, only to find out that the inflamed disk in his neck flares up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Every time it flares up, as it did on Wednesday, stocks fall, bonds fall and even gold falls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
High up, the podo tree flares into a vase-shaped crown, like an elm tree, and the downhanging limbs are draped with bundles of evergreen leafy needles and are spangled with ball-shaped fruit.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Ohtani also mentioned earlier this week that his biceps problem, which flared for the second time this season during his last at-bat July 3, has not completely subsided.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Yesterday morning it was as calm as it is now, and then it all flared up again in the afternoon," Cereja warned.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
In recent weeks, tensions have flared - with police pinning much of the blame on misinformation online.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Crude is up more than 10 percent since the two countries hostilities flared up last week.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
“I know,” Moss said, his face burning as anger flared in him again.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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“It was flaring up, wasn’t recovering — however you want to word it,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
To separate the true signals from the effects of stellar flaring, the team developed specialized calibration methods.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Oil has been back in the spotlight with Iran tensions flaring back up, but investors are more focused on the start of another crucial quarterly earnings season.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Nine minutes into the second half, the homegrown captain, neck muscles flaring, flicked a header beyond Dida, circling his arms to rouse the Reds in the Istanbul stands.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
She studied her sleeping grandfather’s withered face, his gaping toothless mouth and flaring nostrils bathed in the warm glow of the reading lamp.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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