flurry
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The council, in a flurry of votes, sidelined proposals from Councilmembers Imelda Padilla, Hernandez and Raman that were billed as a way to reduce the risk facing the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
A mountain rescue team leader has compared a flurry of callouts, which saw 20 climbers saved over a 13-hour period, to a pop-up game.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The findings represent the latest in a flurry of publicly disclosed instances of AI models taking novel steps—including some that are nefarious—to ace tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Discovery has drawn a flurry of legal opposition.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
It’s like the bluefin know how tired I am, because they give one last flurry of feeding, making tinker explode in all directions, and then suddenly they’re gone.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
In the flurries of media interviews that come with life as an astronaut, he acknowledged the deep responsibility he felt toward the next generations of Black astronauts he hoped to inspire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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
Parts of west Florida reported snow flurries over the weekend, according to the weather services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
She’s remained on top as technology like foam injected composite rackets has lifted pickleball from Tupperware flurries to intense athletic slugfests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
She made her first solo flight in the first week of the new year, between snow flurries.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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
Boston flurried at the end of the half to take a 68-56 lead into halftime.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Sircar called out as doctors and nurses flurried around a 48-year-old man who had been rushed in and intubated in the emergency room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2021
City Council staffers flurried to do the same for their bosses.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2017
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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