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Definitions for flickering
flick·er·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. flickering, aflicker(p)adjective

    shining unsteadily

Wiktionary

  1. flickeringnoun

    A short, uncertain burst.

    Even after the acrimonious breakup, she still felt flickerings of love for him.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Flickering

    of Flicker

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of flickering in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of flickering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of flickering in a Sentence

  1. Peter Atherton:

    If we get to 2023/4 and the lights are flickering then of course you would expect the government to step in and say plants can stay open.

  2. Andrew Lovato-Needham:

    We started walking down eight flights of stairs. As we’re doing that, the building was shaking a bit and the lights were flickering on and off, a little bit, only because we were on the fifteenth floor, so I knew if something happened, we had to get out quick and not use the elevator.

  3. Henry Ward Beecher:

    Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

  4. Gore Vidal:

    The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

  5. Stephen Innes:

    Some shorts covered after the director gave the WHO's stamp of approval to China's aggressive containment effort, for now, the market's risk lights have shifted from flickering on red to a steady shade of amber, which could bring more risk back into play.

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