Beam
Flashes
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Star Trek: First Contact has a meta-example, Watch closely when Lily Sloane returns the phaser to Picard: the tip flashes red shortly, as a sign for the VFX people to add a phaser beam.
Source: Reckless Gun Usage - Turrets use the same ITTS, so even those without beam weapons aren't here just for flashes.
Source: Lead the Target -
However, Minatsu blocks him, then a beam of light flashes from her hand, literally vaporizing Ken into dust.
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Flashes and Beam. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beam/flashes
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Flashes or Beam. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/beam/flashes.
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