- present participle of flash.
flashing
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Treasurys, long considered an ultrasafe asset by investors, was flashing a warning light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Kathleen Brooks, research director at investment company XTB, told the BBC News Channel: "Of course, this is red lights flashing."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Throughout the monthslong crisis, though, the strategists said they’ve been flashing back to the 2003 Iraq war and then Defense Sec.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
That allows several police vehicles to broadcast a synchronized public safety announcement while flashing the same light-signal pattern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
A thick blanket of fog covers the floor, occasionally flashing with miniature bolts of lightning that remind me of static shocks.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
When the photon crashes into your outdoor flag, wood deck, house paint, metal roof or flashings, it splits molecules apart and rips atoms off objects.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
Talk to experienced roofers, and they’ll tell you the vast majority of leaks happen at flashings.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
But the endless flashings of the different linings on the beat of musical flourishes — and the visible struggles that some choristers on Sunday had with the magnets — grew tiresome.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
A well-known skylight manufacturer provides its own aluminum flashings with each skylight.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
Archie turned away from Brother Jacques and watched the ambulance making its careful progress out of the athletic field, the rotating blue light casting emergency flashings all over the place.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
