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
“Sky Islands” evokes the magical Philippines upper rainforests, where sounds scintillate in a thinned atmosphere that gives gongs new glories, where animals capable of great ascension exclusively live, where the mind is ready for enlightenment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025
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
But it's not just dark-matter particles that cause argon to scintillate like this, so we have to minimize interference.
From Nature • Sep. 27, 2016
He brought his light with him, as it were, and it seemed to flood his body, and glisten and scintillate from all his whitening bones.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
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