glimmer
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Monday’s report had another glimmer of good news: Delinquency rates appear to be stabilizing, and fewer accounts are paying just the bare minimum.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Gil remembers, smiling, that at that moment he thought, "Oh my God, there's a step. There's a glimmer of hope."
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Powerful scores from Ellis Genge and George Martin, just before half-time, ignited a glimmer of hope for England.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Yet one piece of Stellantis’s struggling business gave a glimmer of hope for Filosa: a partnership with an obscure Chinese automaker called Leapmotor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
The spines in their jewel tones, the glimmer of leaf.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
"We have seen one or two weaknesses, glimmers, no more than that," said Nevin.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Leo Tolstoy wrote that there is no happiness in life — only its glimmers.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
Graduates say they also see glimmers of a rebound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Still, those glimmers of hope fueled a massive rally on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite all posting their best days since last May.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
Inside the cube, a vial of toxic, green poison glimmers.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Beats hummed, lights glimmered and about 200 young men and women traded emerald-green tiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
In a small village further up the beach, Christmas lights glimmered in the dark.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
This city of red-tile roofs, temperate breezes and coastal charm has long glimmered as one of those exceptional California places.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
The sun glimmered on the sea outside his west-facing windows.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
And above him stood an old man whose cloak glimmered pale in the moonrise: the Archmage Nemmerle.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Despite the glimmering signs of stress on the domestic front, Chinese leaders recently signalled they have no intention of rolling out any major policy easing in the near term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
But “Ankhmerwer”—gorgeously inscribed and illustrated and sprinkled with glimmering gold shrines, crowns, birds, gods and sun disks—rewards close looking and empathetic eyes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
In the closing shot, the words "we belong together" appeared over a sea of bodies dancing beneath glimmering lights at the show.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
At the Orange County Auto Show, Corinne Lawson and her husband took a test drive in a glimmering white Mustang Mach-E, an all-electric vehicle made by Ford.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2025
Usually by now the trees would be glimmering with a few early arrivals and fresh nests.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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