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And to create this air of discomfort, Fennell crafted a movie that darts from hopeful to despairingly bleak in the blink of an eye.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
A tiny aquatic organism made of just one cell can compress its body to one quarter of its original length in under five milliseconds, hundreds of times faster than a person can blink.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Henry Pollock is determined not to blink first in his contractual face-off.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
With the blink of an eye, years go by so fast covering high school athletes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
His blue eyes blink, and we look at each other.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
“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
They have become accustomed to rising from bed whenever the electricity blinks on, no matter the hour, to cook and do laundry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
A sign reading “Where Vietnamese coffee talks…” blinks overhead in the alley leading to this speakeasy-like cafe in the Old Quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
He blinks several times, as though trying to focus on me.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The sun disappeared, the streetlights blinked on, and a shiver passed through the crowd that had nothing to do with the temperature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
When Bean finally told his family he was gay, in 1996 — three years before clueing in an unsuspecting public via a Miami Herald article — none of his loved ones blinked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
“Just spit it out,” I said as all the solidarity I’d felt a moment before washed away, and I took a step to the left so our shoulders weren’t touching anymore and blinked hard.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
For me, among so many other things, I enjoy without measure watching great reporters crack their knuckles and create a saga where once stood a blinking cursor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
"I forgot to look down until I heard our baby's cry. I saw her face, gasping just as she did. Her eyes, wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow, blinking rapidly."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The other day, I found myself looking at a blinking cursor in a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
Seven could almost imagine hundreds of blinking red eyes staring back at them from the darkness.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
