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flurry

[flur-ee, fluhr-ee] / ˈflɜr i, ˈflʌr i /




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He told the jury: ''I sent out a flurry of these applications.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

He added that Pyongyang's recent flurry of statements only suggested that the South's ongoing efforts to clear landmines inside the DMZ were "proving effective".

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Courts have, at times, struggled to keep up with the flurry of litigation over the plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

New campaign finance filings revealed that much of the advertising flurry was funded by one highly motivated donor: Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

In low tones, she told her husband that there had been “a burglary,” a remark which—repeated by a well-meaning eavesdropper to his neighbor—spread rapidly around the room and generated a flurry of unwanted concern.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

There will be occasional flurries of action and tense situations, but it’s a leisurely watch — though not slow, in the pejorative sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

In Tokyo, the flowers reached full bloom during the weekend, entering a brief period of stunning beauty, before the petals will fall like flurries of snow.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

Fast-moving hail showers are possible almost anywhere and brief flurries of wet snow are not out of the question, even in the south.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

Nano Banana Pro produced the most real-looking outfit and flurries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

Over the next several days, temperatures dropped into the teens, snow flurries turned into light snowstorms, which in turn became full-scale blizzards.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

For 27 clubs, that meant an afternoon of flurried activity, with top international prospects officially signing deals that, in many cases, they had effectively been committed to for months, if not years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

The brushstrokes are a whirlwind of eloquent smudges and slashes, suggesting that the picture was completed in a few flurried minutes.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

But instead of gangsters and cocaine, it finds a flurried momentum in one ordinary woman’s everyday obligations, which threaten to break her when a nationwide strike throws her tenuous act off balance.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Boston flurried at the end of the half to take a 68-56 lead into halftime.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

The black wings flurried and black dragon-blood dropped in thick drops into the sea.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

As Antoshak recalls, it was flurrying — the first snow of the season.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022

Long lines of blue-clad fans stood queued up for beers despite an overcast sky and flakes of snow flurrying to the ground.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2018

It is a gem of a work, opening with a fantasia of flurrying 16th notes that echo snowfall.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2017

The wind scattered the flurrying snow above the grave.

From Time Magazine Archive

What if you’re both wrong? she said, her hands flurrying.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi


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