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as in flurry
a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity
the site saw a flutter of construction last month, but nothing's happening now
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as in venture
chiefly British
a risky undertaking
most people regard the lottery as a harmless flutter
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as in to flit
to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements
a lonely butterfly fluttering across the lawn
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as in to flap
to move or cause to move with a striking motion
fluttered my eyelashes as I struck up a conversation with the new guy at work
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Recent Examples of flutter
Molly Matthews, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
This captures birds on camera and sends you real-time notifications whenever there’s a flutter.
—Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
European flags flutter in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) building prior to a news conference following the meeting of the governing council of the ECB in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, on September 12, 2024.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
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Noun
According to the butterfly effect, a small flutter in one corner of the globe can profoundly impact the opposite side of the world.
—Molly Matthews, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
This captures birds on camera and sends you real-time notifications whenever there’s a flutter.
—Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
Verb
Butterflies flutter among red and orange flowers that line guest casitas.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
European flags flutter in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) building prior to a news conference following the meeting of the governing council of the ECB in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, on September 12, 2024.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
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Since the intelligence agencies do not usually bother to debunk such individual bits of false propaganda, the sudden flurry of public notifications indicates the severity of the threat that U.S. spies now see in the underlying Russian plot against the election.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, a flurry of litigation in the state means thousands of provisional ballots will be cast.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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The filing also details the company's investment in seven joint ventures, with a 40%-50% ownership interest, contributing $909,207 to net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Now the commission seeks to stop venture capitalist Vinod Khosla from turning coastal San Mateo County into his personal kingdom.Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Our days here consisted of flitting between the various pools and the beach, trying out the multiple restaurants, and simply wandering the gorgeous botanic gardens that make up the grounds between the mountain and the Mediterranean.Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2024
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Their movement was sensual but assertive, bordering on violent, flitting between slow body rolls and athletic thrusts.Coralie Kraft, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2024
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Using a pair of Joy-Con controllers (the gyroscope-enabled snap-on bits of a Nintendo Switch), players must physically flap their arms to ascend and tilt the controllers to steer.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
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His bioluminescent wings seemed to have been caught flapping in this beat between time.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
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But her images, which often contain jarring bursts of color, rarely appeared to outright represent these subjects.Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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However, your body digests this quick burst of glucose (sugar) quickly, leaving you feeling sluggish shortly after.Lauren Panoff, MPH, RD, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2024
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Whatever the game-plan was, the Kursk offensive was a gamble.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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But in many ways, the benefits to workers have remained a gamble while for farmers they're guaranteed.Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2024
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Trick or treaters may dart into the street, so drive extra cautiously.Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Noon was near and rays of sunshine darted from clouds.Tom Mullen, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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And some of these emissions occur in mysterious, previously unrecognized patterns, split-second flickers that seem to spark ordinary lightning discharges.Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
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The second episode starts with things going from bad to worse as the lights flicker before the power — all power, including the Chenoweths’, Shanleys’, and Kellys’ cars — goes dead.James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Flutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flutter. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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