blinking
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Robert "Madyar" Brovdi's underground command post features walls of blinking screens playing footage of Ukrainian drones attacking Russian troops, frontline maps, and scoreboards of destroyed targets.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Following more than 300 hours of searching, divers finally spotted the blinking of the miner's torch light, which Zapata had turned on and off to alert them to his location.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Before one of Orion’s in-space maneuvers, crew members reported a problem with the toilet, indicated by a blinking fault light.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The “personal computers” of the day were hobbyists’ kits, contraptions that arrived in pieces, with output displays that were limited to blinking red lights.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
I never knew the night sky could be so amazing—trillions of blinking, sparkling, spinning lights in a velvet-black sky.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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