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"flicker by" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means something quickly passes by or happens. Example: As I sat by the window, I watched the autumn leaves flicker by.
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As the kilometres flicker by, the din of the diggers becomes more audible.
On the picture-window screen, glimpses of Levittown from a 1952 newsreel flicker by.
It's like a baby in a stroller, deducing the world from the faces and storefronts that flicker by.
These warning words flicker by at a frequency too fast for the human brain to process – yet they appear in a camcorder recording.
The reason is that the bits of information in an optical signal flicker by so fast that even electronic transistors cannot keep pace.
On Wednesday, nervous employees inside Lehman's Times Square headquarters huddled around computer screens to watch the company's stock price flicker by as Mr. Fuld mapped out his plans.
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Scene after scene flickered by.
Block trades of Microsoft and Cisco flickered by.
Several times we passed rich brown soil so neatly furrowed it flickered by like Op Art.
Women "in red and yellow saris flickered by like load-bearing flames".
Dashed yellow line down the center, flickering by at unmanageable speed.
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