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glimpses

  • plural of glimpse.
  • present tense form of glimpse (3rd person singular).

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But the mom’s parting gift, a diary, provides opaque glimpses into her life with Alfonso in the mid-1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

While she showed glimpses of her former self alongside Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko at Queen's and Karolina Muchova in Berlin, questions remained over how Williams would fare physically on her return to singles.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

Once that World Cup began, they showed glimpses of their potential, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Shaking her head, she blinked and tried again, but still she found herself floundering in the sea of hands, faces, glimpses of dark places.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee