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
Andy Hoglund, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Shaded picnic tables twinkle with Edison string lights overhead, and a huge wood-burning fireplace adds kick-back ambience.
—Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Emily Weaver, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The wall is programmable and lights up with twinkling star effects, colors and strobes.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
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Noun
He’s always got a twinkle in his eye during sketches and makes everyone around him have more fun.
—Andy Hoglund, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Shaded picnic tables twinkle with Edison string lights overhead, and a huge wood-burning fireplace adds kick-back ambience.
—Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Verb
Turn your porch into a calming oasis with twinkling fairy lights, or upgrade your front yard with in-ground pathway lighting or solar sconces.
—Emily Weaver, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The wall is programmable and lights up with twinkling star effects, colors and strobes.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twinkle
Noun
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Beauvillier and Strome, typically with Ovechkin as their left wing, have been highly effective and highly productive across both games — and that’s after only getting about 24 minutes together in the regular season.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Heat started fast, pulling ahead 16-7 six minutes into Wednesday’s contest.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The typically more boring corner of Wall Street has been flashing signals of stress this week that have been serious enough to demand attention from both Wall Street and President Trump.—
Anne Marie Drummond Lee,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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With bond markets flashing warning signs while Americans sleep, investors risk missing a major shift.—
Joel Shulman,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Less than two weeks after Luis Enrique’s appointment, the first team took up residence at the club’s gleaming new training centre, the PSG Campus, in Poissy, 25 kilometres west of central Paris.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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The historic fantasy of the Great White Way as a glamorous montage of gleaming marquees, sparky backstage romances, and elegant audiences reveling in black tie was a Hollywood concoction, arguably false from the start.—
Frank Rich,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
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There’s a foot-stomping grin of a heartbeat to John’s piano riffs, too, content but happy.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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The miniature pacemaker is composed of two electrodes that, when in contact with the body’s fluids, form a type of battery called a galvanic cell, which converts chemical energy into electrical energy used to stimulate the heartbeat.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Apr. 2025
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The Danish and Swedish customers appear to take a Proustian pleasure, all smiles in the flickering firelight.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The offense didn’t flicker in Mariota’s appearances.—
Ben Standig,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Sunlight glints off what looks like fishing wire strewn through the trees and bushes.—
Eleanor Beardsley,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2025
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For the occasion, the office of the local governor had prepared an elaborate ceremony, with a military band and an honor guard standing at attention, the bayonets of their rifles glinting in the sun.—
Simon Shuster,
TIME,
24 Mar. 2025
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Brunson and Payne combined to score 17 points — nine for Payne and eight for Brunson — in just 3 minutes, 57 seconds.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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His legs shook, seconds after his repeat win of the 13.1-mile race held every April.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Apr. 2025
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And the skyline is topped by a luminous neo-Byzantine basilica that sparkles nearly as much as the Mediterranean in sunshine.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
17 Apr. 2025
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Drop of Sunshine New to the brand’s lineup is the Drop of Sunshine sparkling rosé.—
Emily Cappiello,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Twinkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twinkle. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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