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  • noun Plural form of eyeblink.

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Examples

  • Rather than being set a hundred or two hundred years hence, and rather than dealing with astronauts and implacable alien artefacts, The City slams us billions of years into the future, telescoping entire aeons and ages into mere eyeblinks.

    The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011

  • The battle at the end is over in about two eyeblinks.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • Weapons controlled by more minor human movements - eyeblinks, waves, etc?

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Venue for next Thursday? 2009

  • It's important to note that this is a published abstract, not a full paper, so it is difficult to evaluate the methods used, though presumably they involved counting eyeblinks.

    Don't blink, you'll lose the election! josh 2008

  • It's important to note that this is a published abstract, not a full paper, so it is difficult to evaluate the methods used, though presumably they involved counting eyeblinks.

    Archive 2008-11-01 josh 2008

  • He's got a lifetime of mouse-clicking and typing ahead of him (or eyeblinks and voice recognition, if you're feeling futuristic), so why rush things?

    A Father's Dilemma 2008

  • I swore I never took my eyes off her, and yet the next moment, between eyeblinks, she had blended in with the snow and was gone.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • I swore I never took my eyes off her, and yet the next moment, between eyeblinks, she had blended in with the snow and was gone.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • I swore I never took my eyes off her, and yet the next moment, between eyeblinks, she had blended in with the snow and was gone.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • Incredibly, he had moved like a striking snake, his every movement preplanned-all this had taken place in the space of a few eyeblinks.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

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