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blink

[blingk] / blɪŋk /




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“You really can’t be playing Pink Floyd out here, you’ll blink and it’ll be sunrise,” he said, turning up his hair-metal playlist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

"It was like a blink, and at the same time it was intense, it went so fast," Vaccarello told CNN during an interview to mark his ten years at the brand in May.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

I blink over and over trying to make the tears evaporate before they trickle over.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Mark Zuckerberg named mine “Dash,” and whenever I open Muse, the cute little fella blinks at me as he swivels his necklike body part from right to left.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Every pair of glasses with a camera has a bright light on the front that blinks when the user takes a photo or video and it can’t be turned off, a spokesperson for Meta said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

One of the last things Hal Jordan’s hologram tells John before he blinks out, possibly forever, will define Pierre’s hero moving forward, along with this series, should it earn a second season.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Meta glasses have a built-in LED light which blinks when they are recording images and cannot be turned off.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

One of them blinks drowsily at me, and I catch my breath, but he just slumps back down.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

He owned his portrayal of Gurney Halleck in “Dune” so completely that nobody blinked when he dashed into a battle scene bellowing mightily while clutching a pug, of all things.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

She blinked, paused, and then muttered: “In the winter.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

At 40-30, the trophy in her sights, Rybakina could have blinked.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

It was the U.S Treasury market that blinked first and threatened dysfunction.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

I said through gritted teeth as I blinked at the tears I hadn’t even noticed until now.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Every five or 15 minutes, another pager returned to the host stand, blinking and vibrating in the hands of a customer whose table was finally ready.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Her daughter had asked her to move closer and “without blinking an eye, I said yes. It was a no-brainer. It was logical. It was the best decision ever,” Minken said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

They have a blinking LED light when recording.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

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 kept looking at that blinking dot that is YOU and thinking about you being all alone in space and then my stomach filled up with knots.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga


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