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Definitions for flickering
flick·er·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
flickering, aflicker(p)adjective
shining unsteadily
Wiktionary
flickeringnoun
A short, uncertain burst.
Even after the acrimonious breakup, she still felt flickerings of love for him.
Webster Dictionary
Flickering
of Flicker
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flickering in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flickering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of flickering in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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