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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.

ChatGPT

  1. flickering

    Flickering is the rapid, repeated change in the brightness or intensity of light or screen, often causing discomfort or strain to the eyes. It can also refer to a similar fluctuation in sound or an unsteady emotional or mental state.

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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Ginger Tidwell:

    When the lights started flickering, and then were out.

  4. 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.

  5. Jessica Kitt:

    The zoomies offer substantial flexibility with respect to their design, for example, we can use color, size, and flickering to indicate various risks such as extreme wind speeds, rainfall, or storm surge, and those can be perceived within the ensemble.

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