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In a twinkling, the report gets disappeared from public view and public comment as completely as if it had been dropped off the end of the Santa Monica Pier.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

The audience rehashed its hunches, they circled potential suspects, they stared at a static image of a horrific crime scene, awash in twinkling moonlight.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

Through the cockpit, the city glowed on the horizon, a strip of twinkling lights severing the night sky from the dark Potomac river.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

The Christmas lights are still twinkling in the town, but several bars closed their doors out of respect.

From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026

I looked up at that star twinkling over the mountains, but instead of wishing, I just closed my eyes and breathed in the piney air.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

"It quickly became clear to me that mutability has these twinklings of joy, sometimes ecstasy, which comes through in the poems, I think."

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2011

I know some lovelorn hearts that beat In time to moonbeam twinklings fleet, That dance and glance like jewels there, Emblazoning the raven hair!

From The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington

Again, inter-stellar space is, of course, absolutely black and devoid of any form of light save the faint twinklings of the far-off stars.

From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington

So that the aquiline lightning was but momentary; and abated to lambent twinklings, with something even of comic in them, as we shall gather.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle

Outspread translucent fins Flute, fold, and relapse; The threaded light prints through them on the pebbles In scarcely tarnished twinklings.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell