flurry
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The initial Moss Landing fire sparked a flurry oflegislative proposals to bolster California’s energy storage safety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
He also anticipates that companies involved in project development of behind-the-meter systems will see a flurry of transactions with data-center developers and AI companies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Others have expressed scepticism at the recent flurry of warnings by AI staffers.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
In February, rates briefly dropped below 6%, sparking a flurry of buyer interest and optimism that a rebound in sales was on the horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Answering raps often came in a flurry or with long pauses between.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Still, officials from Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey made flurries of calls, including to Iran’s Araghchi and Trump’s envoy Witkoff to salvage peace efforts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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
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
Most parts of the UK will be fairly sunny by day, but light snow flurries will affect the far north of Scotland, west Wales and some eastern counties of England.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
“I don’t know. I’m just asking. I can’t believe it’s January and we haven’t even had flurries yet.”
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
For 27 clubs, that meant an afternoon of flurried activity, with top international prospects officially signing deals that, in many cases, they had effectively been committed to for months, if not years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
But instead of gangsters and cocaine, it finds a flurried momentum in one ordinary woman’s everyday obligations, which threaten to break her when a nationwide strike throws her tenuous act off balance.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Boston flurried at the end of the half to take a 68-56 lead into halftime.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
City Council staffers flurried to do the same for their bosses.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2017
Reed stood at the prow while they flurried around him, with Jigo and the chief mate at his side.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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