as in minute
a very small space of time
in just a twinkle, the shooting star was gone
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as in to gleam
to shoot forth bursts of light
stars twinkling on a crisp September night
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Recent Examples of twinkle
Phillip Goericke, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
From the sidelines, an indefatigably kind and patient nurse (Fisayo Akinade) observes these fractious family dynamics with a rueful twinkle, gently counseling the dying matriarch as to how to bring her brood back together.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
But who wants to bid adieu to that twinkling gilmmer during the darkest, coldest months?
—Heather Bien, The Spruce, 8 Jan. 2026
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But this holiday season, browsing for gifts isn’t all just twinkle lights and holiday cheer for this big-spending holiday white whale.
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The family settled on a quiet residential street of older homes and multifamily buildings, some front porches festooned with pride flags still twinkling with holiday lights.
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Tied at 19, the Chiefs got the ball back with four minutes left, with the chance to march for a game-winning field goal.—
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There can be 30 minutes of small waves before a sneaker wave strikes.—
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Elsewhere, swallows flashed across the surface of the water.—
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The final few scenes of His & Hers flashes to a year after the murders and shows that Anna and Jack are, indeed, back together.—
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For nearly a century, the Oscars stood as a gleaming cathedral to Hollywood prestige, the pinnacle of artistic achievement.—
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Williams points to these small moments, and poignant visions, as the representations of our hope, our resilience, our bright and gleaming futures.—
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Digoxin Digoxin is used to treat heart failure and certain types of irregular heartbeats.—
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World-first findings on coffee and irregular heartbeat University of Adelaide and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers led a randomized clinical trial of 200 adults from Australia, the US and Canada with atrial fibrillation (AF) to test coffee's impact on irregular heartbeats.—
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Private sector confidence flickers but has not fully ignited.—
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Use the remote to set a timer, change the flickering mode, and adjust brightness.—
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The sunshine sparkles upon the ripples of the gently moving water, which is clear and colored like tea by natural plant tannins.—
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Per its Sotheby's auction listing, scrolls of diamonds are interrupted by sparkling floral motifs, while a romantic heart emblem sits at the center.—
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Kane opened the scoring on a two-man advantage with 29 seconds left in the first period.—
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Instead, Prairie View A&M was forced to foul on the other end, and UAPB guard Kristyna Boyd made one of her two fouls shots with 10 seconds to go to set the final score.—
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At first glance, Glass Mountain looks out of place—an irregular, pale, 15-foot mound glinting in the sunlight, as if someone dumped a pile of shiny shards in the middle of the desert.—
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In 2023, astronomers reported that some of these satellites were already photobombing images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, as sunlight glinted off their surfaces leaving bright trails that erase, obscure or mimic genuine cosmic signals.—
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“Twinkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twinkle. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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