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plural of flicker
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as in movies
a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track as a child, the future director would spend hours sitting in the theater, totally entranced by the flickers

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as in hints
an almost imperceptible sign of something there was a flicker of recognition in her eye when I mentioned his name, but she denied knowing him

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flickers

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verb

present tense third-person singular of flicker

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Recent Examples of flickers
Noun
Light broke through the mountains in flickers, then vanished as the storm thickened. Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025 An engine of sorts was gathering here, drawing calories closer to human settlements, energy that was dissipated in the flickers of flame and the fires of metabolism. Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
Over dinner, a broadcast flickers on the cabin’s dusty TV. Jp Mangalindan, Time, 28 Aug. 2025 The glowing phenomenon appears as rays, spirals and flickers that most commonly manifest in hues of red and green. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025 Just this one pipe yielded the carcasses of hundreds of birds and animals, including kestrels, flickers, bluebirds, and fence lizards that had become trapped over a time period of 50 years. Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025 Once the sun goes down, the neon flickers on and music spills from open doorways. Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flickers
Noun
  • The most iconic fashion movies offer not only aesthetic inspiration, but a cultural mirror.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2025
  • San Sebastián has a long tradition as a focus of pro-democracy protest under Franco and, after democracy was won in general elections of 1977, of screening political and social issue movies.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thin air and unpredictable wind flurries near Everest’s highest elevations prevent the drones from operating at some of the final camps leading to the summit.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The video was picked apart by people looking for some hints as to the shooter’s motivation or politics.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Swifties also took note of a few extremely subtle hints Swift made during her appearance on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast, indicating a Super Bowl performance could be in her future.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The episode’s first half feels like the work of a misguided pest, and Beto’s filmmaking, which flits between several different styles and cuts between multiple angles sometimes within the course of one interview segment, doesn’t help.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Premiering at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, BRATS offers an intimate look at the group's cultural impact in films such as The Breakfast Club (1985), Back to the Future (1985) and Pretty in Pink (1986), as well as behind-the-scenes footage and promotional clips.
    Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Meyer has also appeared on Designated Survivor (2018), The Fix (2019), and Good Girls (2021), and acted in films including Changeland (2019), Unpregnant (2020), and The Enormity of Life (2021).
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The palate bursts with rich, agave-forward flavors, revealing curious floral nuances of geranium and sweet spices.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The bursts packed a punch, uprooting even mature trees in the Carmichael area, and disrupting power to thousands of Sacramento Municipal Utility District customers.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There were glimmers of the magnificent past at the 2024 French Open against Iga Swiatek when Osaka won the second set 6-1 and was within a point of going 5-1 up in the decider.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Servillo is such a sly actor, and the director showcases his deadpan performance with such slow-build curiosity, that the film is always cueing us to read his mind, to see the glimmers of thought and soul behind the façade.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Keep reading for the best flicks streaming on HBO Max.
    Charlotte Walsh, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The Wu put people onto a lot of movies like John Woo’s The Killer and kung fu flicks.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Flickers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flickers. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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