glimmer

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While refreshing the app I saw a glimmer of hope.

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Quick take

a flash of light (especially reflected light)

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noun

a flash of light (especially reflected light)

noun

a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen"

verb

shine brightly, like a star or a light

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for glimmer.

noun

a flash of light (especially reflected light)

noun

a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen"

See also: inkling, intimation, glimmering

verb

shine brightly, like a star or a light

Example sentences

While refreshing the app I saw a glimmer of hope.

As long as Google was federating, there was that glimmer of hope that things might change.

As jaded as I am on altruism and human nature, this post gives me a slight glimmer of hope.

I'm not a lawyer, but I wonder if this might offer a faint glimmer hope for the software industry.

So there are a lot of Americans straining their eyes for a glimmer of salvation.

The software industry is heading in very bad directions, and this is at least a glimmer of hope.

Oh no, something is showing the slightest glimmer of working, it must immediately be a bubble!

Its still in the process of being sold in exchange for the glimmer of hope that we might one day join the glorious EU and its "reasonable" interest rates.

I believe so - most students are going to experience a reality crash within a first 2 weeks anyway,so a glimmer of hope at the beginning would not hurt.

Any approach amounting to "just fucking do it" is going to last only as along as that little glimmer of resolve lasts, which is obviously short term.

There's one slim glimmer of hope here: It suggests that the threat of union action would be similarly disruptive and that a concerted action on the part of employees would in fact tend to succeed.