scintillate
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Liverpool certainly didn't scintillate with their display in the Midlands but they showed the resilience of champions.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
Space telescopes see the universe undistorted by Earth’s atmosphere, whose shifting air causes stars to scintillate, or twinkle, and whose gas molecules block many wavelengths entirely, including much of the infrared.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2022
Its luminous blue twilight sky and inky shadows scintillate while New Yorkers with little skull faces go about their business.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2021
Serving that theme means not adding scintillating fictional details just to scintillate and, more importantly, not perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019
The modern men look extremely comfortable and well at their ease; but they do not scintillate in the old style.
From Far Off Things by Machen, Arthur
Kevin De Bruyne scintillated throughout, with Riyad Mahrez closely behind.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2019
The American consumer world is thrilled into electric activity, the rubbish scintillated and redeemed.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
The Dutch midfielder’s added-time header came as City scintillated before the break and seriously ran out of gas after it.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016
It was as large as half a mat; it was multicolored, and it scintillated.
From Time Magazine Archive
What struggle there was in him between Nature and Grace in this interval, I cannot tell: only singular gleams scintillated in his eyes, and strange shadows passed over his face.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Probably most impressive, a category closely followed by economists known as real final sales rose at a scintillating 3.9% annual pace — the highest reading in more than three years.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Enter “Dad Brain,” a scintillating if uneven book by Darby Saxbe, a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California and an expert on fatherhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
But Ronaldo's dreaded knee injuries meant his time at San Siro never realised the glorious heights of that first scintillating season.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
"It's nearly invisible to the naked eye but our instruments give rise to a vision of swaths of scintillating corona glowing as thunderstorms pass overhead," McFarland said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
Mamie’s scintillating eyes met Wes’s as she opened the door and her arms for a big hug.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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