flurry
/ˈflʌ.ɹi/ noun C1- A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze. · a flurry of wind
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- Any sudden activity; a stir. · The day before the wedding was a flurry of preparations.· a flurry of excitement.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time. · The fencer landed a flurry of hits on her opponent.· The think piece provoked a flurry of media responses for the remainder of the week.
Plural flurries
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“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
A Flurry in Stocks
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