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Their pages don’t flicker with pop-up ads or interrupt one book to tell you about others you might want to read.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Nevertheless, Europe is benefiting from a flicker of activity in the defence sector, notably with the stock market debut in Amsterdam of Czech arms giant CSG, at $4.47 billion, the third-largest deal worldwide since January.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

"None of this is beer-proof let alone waterproof," says Prof Damian Bailey, with only the briefest flicker of somebody regretting their life choices.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

As it steadily gains steam from its spare opening bars, the number has tornado sirens harmonizing while lives flicker and disappear like sparks flying off a firecracker’s fuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Glancing up the trail, Torak caught an orange flicker in the deepening dusk.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Israel’s battered tourism industry is showing rare flickers of life this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

On the corner of another table, the flame from a candle flickers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

"No matter how difficult times are, I believe that humans always manage to find flickers of levity and deep wells of love," she said.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Inside an underground shelter at a hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa, a television screen flickers with images of Iranian missiles as doctors and midwives deliver Sarah Bird's third child.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

His aura flickers like the illusion, and the more it flickers, the fainter it gets.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

In one recording of a WhatsApp video call seen by AFP, the scammer, appearing lifelike as the prince, flickered on the screen.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

The sound of Billie Eilish drifted overhead as candles flickered along every visible surface of Boom, the penthouse lounge crowning the Standard hotel in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

"Grabham's behaviour in court never changed. He showed absolutely no emotion. Nothing flickered across his face."

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

But many of those spectators were cast into darkness for four or five minutes early on until someone put some change in the meter, the scoring screens flickered back into life and play resumed.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

Blazing beams of light flickered across the skyline and left charred feathers floating on the breeze.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

The world watched as Bad Bunny and his dancers performed on top of utility poles, accompanied by sparks and flickering power lines across the stage.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Build a driveshaft for the second season, which was growing from a flickering hope to an alarming likelihood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

They stare at each other in silence for a while, the candles flickering around them.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern